Utility Analysis and the Consumption Function: An Interpretation of Cross-Section Data

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Models of man

aeo Introduction aeo The Five Factors aeo Consistent HR Practices: The Whole Can Be More Than the Sum of the Parts aeo Employment and Economics aeo Employment as a Social Relation aeo Voice: Unions and Other Forms of Employee Representation aeo Employment, Society, and the Law aeo Internal Labor Markets aeo High--Commitment HR aeo Performance Evaluation aeo Pay for Performance aeo Compensation Systems: Forms, Bases, and Distribution of Rewards aeo Job Design aeo Staffing and Recruitment aeo Training aeo Promotion and Career Concerns aeo Downsizing aeo Outsourcing aeo HRM in Emerging Companies aeo Organizing HR Appendix A: Transaction Cost Economics Appendix B: Reciprocity and Reputation in Repeated Interactions Appendix C: Agency Theory Appendix D: Market Signaling and Screening

战略人力资源 : 总经理的思考框架 = Strategic human resources : frameworks for general managers

This paper analyses the recent changes in financial practices and relations in emerging capitalist economies (ECEs) using the example of Brazil. It argues that in ECEs these financial transformations, akin to the financialisation phenomena observed in Core Capitalist Economies (CCEs), are fundamentally shaped by their subordinated integration into a financialised and structured world economy. To analyse this subordinated financialisation, the paper draws on the framework of international currency hierarchies. It shows by means of two specific processes how the existence of a hierarchic international monetary system has changed the financial behaviour of domestic economic agents, and with it the structure of the financial system. The first process highlights the phenomenon of reserve accumulation and the changing behaviour of domestic banks. The second points to ECEs’ sustained external vulnerability and its impact on the operations of Brazilian non-financial corporations. The paper also shows that...

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Subordinated Financial Integration and Financialisation in Emerging Capitalist Economies: The Brazilian Experience

Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage . Edited by Peter Hall and David Soskice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi + 540 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, tables. Cloth, $74.00; paper, $32.50. ISBN: cloth 0-199-24774-9; paper 0-199-24775-7.

This paper presents the main features of the financialisation of the Portuguese economy and society by focusing on the relation between the Portuguese financial sector and both external and domestic economic agents. It underlines the role played by the insertion of domestic finance into international financial markets in the financialisation of the country. Based on the Portuguese case, it elaborates on the theoretical understanding of the context-specific nature of semi-peripheral financialisation aimed as a contribution to an emerging body of literature addressing this phase of capitalism.

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Semi-peripheral financialisation: the case of Portugal

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of cooperation in productive ventures, conceived of as collective action endeavours that require cooperation rather than mere coordination. It is argued that cooperative behaviour is grounded on three kinds of ‘common goods’, defined as goods that are shared and recognized as beneficial by the workers. These comprise common goals, relational satisfaction, and moral norms and values. The commonly held goods are associated with motives and behavioural rules which constitute both the reasons for cooperating and the means through which the dilemmatic nature of cooperation is overcome. It is further argued that the binding character of these rules is closely linked to humans’ ability and opportunity to communicate. Normative guidelines relative to management practices and directions for future research are also derived.

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The motives for cooperation in work organizations

Portugal, a semi-peripheral country within the world economy, has followed financialisation processes similar to and distinct from those of core countries. This article reflects on the factors that have shaped social reproduction in Portugal by examining the differentiated ways through which finance has interacted with the provision of housing, pensions and water and their variegated impacts. Based on these three case studies, the article discusses the constraints on, and pressures for, continued expansion of finance in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. It underlines the subordinated and uneven nature of Portuguese semi-peripheral financialisation, the role of European integration in its unfolding, and concludes that the promotion of the interests of finance located in major advanced capitalist countries, and of the national and international institutions under their influence, has resulted in growing social and spatial inequalities.

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Semi-peripheral Financialisation and Social Reproduction: The Case of Portugal

The study analyses the evolution of water provision in Portugal. It argues that the Portuguese water system of provision is deeply marked by the process of financialisation of the Portuguese economy, leading to high levels of private indebtedness that sustained a neoliberal agenda until the crisis of 2008-09. The history of the neoliberal transformation of water provision in Portugal is examined, paying particular attention to the progress achieved and the transformations occurring in its business model and finances, including the role of different agents in these processes. The neoliberal transformation of the Portuguese system of water provision is then set against the effects of the recent economic crisis. It concludes that the recent progress in the water SoP has been interrupted through a halt in investment and pressure for higher tariffs which, in a context of declining disposable income, intensifies social vulnerability.

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Financialisation and neoliberalism: The case of water provision in Portugal

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Nuno Teles

Papers

Semi-peripheral financialisation: the case of Portugal

The motives for cooperation in work organizations

Semi-peripheral Financialisation and Social Reproduction: The Case of Portugal

Financialisation and neoliberalism: The case of water provision in Portugal

Finança e habitação em Portugal