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The Organisation of Sociality: A Manifesto for a New Science of Multi-Agent Systems
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Which Reputations Does a Brand Owner Need? Evidence from Trade Mark Opposition
(2007-07-01)At least two: the reputation of their brand and a reputation for being tough on imitators of this brand. Sustaining a brand requires both investment in its reputation amongst consumers and the defence of the brand against ... -
The strategic use of patents and its implications for enterprise and competition policies
(European Commission, 2007-07-08)This report was commissioned as a study into the strategic use of patents. In the course of its case investigations and legislative reviews the European Commission became aware of changes in the use of intellectual property, ... -
Katrina and the Waves: Bad Organization, Natural Evil or The State
(2008)This paper considers Deleuze and Guattari's notions of the smooth and the striated as a basis for rethinking the events of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans in September 2005. It is argued here that popular ... -
Managing Clinical Research in the UK
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Does the Type of News Coverage Influence Donations to Disaster Relief? Evidence from the 2008 Cyclone in Myanmar
(2009-12-01)This paper examines the relationship between media coverage of a major natural disaster and charitable giving for disaster relief, focusing on three questions: first, was media coverage of Cyclone Nargis in May 2008 ... -
Social Policies in Seychelles
(Commonwealth Secretariat and United National Research Institute for Social Development, 2011)Seychelles has one of the most extensive social policy programmes in the developing world, and has been identified as a model for the rest of Africa. As a small state, however, it remains economically vulnerable and in ... -
Mothers' Marital Status and Type of Delivery Medical Care in Guatemala
(2011-02-01)The use of modern medical care for child delivery in rural Guatemala is low relative to other Latin American countries. In the previous literature, factors such as a woman's age, education, ethnicity, religious affiliation ... -
The Functioning of the Trade Mark System in Europe
(Max Planck Institute, 2011-08-03)As an element in the comprehensive evaluation of European trade mark law currently undertaken by the European Commission, the Max Planck Institute was given the task to carry out a Study on the Overall Functioning of the ... -
Natural disasters and vulnerability: Evidence from the 1997 forest fires in Indonesia
(2011-11-09)Few studies have attempted to investigate the link between poverty and vulnerability with respect to natural disasters. By applying a utility model to panel data from Indonesia that brackets a major forest fire, this paper ... -
How to Educate Entrepreneurs?
(2011-11-27)Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students ... -
The Politics of Watching
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Refining the Concept of Political Will: A Gender Perspective
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Trade Mark Cluttering: An Exploratory Report
(Intellectual Property Office UK, 2012-04-13)This report explores the problem of “cluttering” of trade mark registers. The report consists of two parts: the first presents a conceptual discussion of “clutte ring” of trade mark registers. The second part provides an ... -
Examining market entry mode strategies via resource-based and institutional influences: Empirical evidence from a region-within-country economy context
(2012-08-01)This research has two major purposes. The first is to develop and test a framework for market entry mode choice drawing on the resource-based theory and institutional theory in the context of region-within-country from ...
