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The Organisation For Economic Cooperation And Development, Richard Woodward Mar 2004

The Organisation For Economic Cooperation And Development, Richard Woodward

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This article reviews the role of the OECD, a much cited but little studied institution, in global governance.


Bringing The Environment In From The Cold, Thomas Power Jan 2004

Bringing The Environment In From The Cold, Thomas Power

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The aim of this essay is to present an overview of some of the basic concepts underlying the mainstream approach to the role of economics in the analysis of the causes and treatment of environmental degradation. It evaluates the mainstream view depicted by Helm and Pearce and analyses economic externalities in context, conventional economic approaches and imperfect information.


Editorial To The Lrn2004 Annual Conference Special Issue Fo The International Journal Of Logistics: Research And Applications, Edward Sweeney Jan 2004

Editorial To The Lrn2004 Annual Conference Special Issue Fo The International Journal Of Logistics: Research And Applications, Edward Sweeney

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Couple Dynamic In Household Tourism Decision Making: Women As The Gatekeepers?, Ziene Mottiar, Deirdre Quinn Jan 2004

Couple Dynamic In Household Tourism Decision Making: Women As The Gatekeepers?, Ziene Mottiar, Deirdre Quinn

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The purpose of this study is to explore household tourism decision making. There is an extensive literature on consumer choice in general. In terms of tourism, the main focus has been on motivational factors. However, as part of the emergence of a literature which studies the issues of tourism and gender, there are some authors who focus on holiday decision making. In this context the focus here is the distinctive roles and power relations within a couple. The study is exploratory in nature and employs a self-administered questionnaire. It is concluded that the overall consumption of a holiday is largely …


Firm Growth As A Research Issue, Thomas Cooney, Pasi Malinen Jan 2004

Firm Growth As A Research Issue, Thomas Cooney, Pasi Malinen

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A key issue of debate regarding small firms over the past two decades has focused on the ability of small firms to engender growth, particularly fast-growth firms. Many commentators believe that it is a minimal group of enterprises germinating rapidly that provide the real jobs and therefore, that it is these firms which policy makers should be converging upon. But how can small businesses be transformed into fast-growth firms? As Tuck and Hamilton (1993) noted, despite the magnitude of research on small firms, especially regarding growth, researchers are still uncertain why some firms grow and others do not when originating …


Gatekeeping, Peter B. Oh Jan 2004

Gatekeeping, Peter B. Oh

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Gatekeeping is a metaphor ubiquitous across disciplines and within fields of law. Generally, gatekeeping comprises an actor monitoring the quality of information, products, or services. Specific conceptions of gatekeeping functions have arisen independently within corporate and evidentiary law. Corporate gatekeeping entails deciding whether to grant or withhold support necessary for financial disclosure; evidentiary gatekeeping entails assessing whether expert knowledge is relevant and reliable for admissibility. This article is the first to identify substantive parallels between gatekeeping in these two contexts and to suggest their cross-treatment. Public corporate gatekeepers, like their judicial evidentiary analogues, should bear a duty of reliable monitoring.


A Pattern-Oriented Approach To Fair Use, Michael J. Madison Jan 2004

A Pattern-Oriented Approach To Fair Use, Michael J. Madison

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More than 150 years into development of the doctrine of "fair use" in American copyright law, there is no end to legislative, judicial, and academic efforts to rationalize the doctrine. Its codification in the 1976 Copyright Act appears to have contributed to its fragmentation, rather than to its coherence. This Article suggests that fair use is neither badly conceived nor badly applied, but that it is too often badly understood. As did much of copyright law, fair use originated as a judicially-unacknowledged effort via the law to validate certain favored social practices and patterns. In the main, it has continued …