Given incomplete factor markets, appropriate time paths of flow variables must be chosen to build required stocks of assets. That is, critical resources are accumulated rather than acquired in "strategic factor markets" Barney [Barney, J. 1986. Strategic factor markets: Expectations, luck, and business strategy. Management Sci. October 1231-1241.]. Sustainability of a firm's asset position hinges on how easily assets can be substituted or imitated. Imitability is linked to the characteristics of the asset accumulation process: time compression diseconomies, asset mass efficiencies, inter-connectedness, asset erosion and causal ambiguity.

Asset stock accumulation and sustainability of competitive advantage

Climate change undermines a basic assumption that historically has facilitated management of water supplies, demands, and risks.

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Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management?

This paper tries to show how the major features of the behavior of advertising can be explained by advertising's information function. For search qualities advertising provides direct information about the characteristics of a brand. For experience qualities the most important information conveyed by advertising is simply that the brand advertises. This contrast in advertising by these qualities leads to significant differences in its behavior. How does advertising provide information to the consumer? The producer in his advertising is not interested directly in providing information for consumers. He is interested in selling more of his product. Subject to a few constraints, the advertising message says anything the seller of a brand wishes. A mechanism is required to make the selling job of advertising generate information to the consumer. [Авторский текст]

Advertising as Information

We investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to (1) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and (2) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms with better CSR performance face significantly lower capital constraints. We provide evidence that both better stakeholder engagement and transparency around CSR performance are important in reducing capital constraints. The results are further confirmed using several alternative measures of capital constraints, a paired analysis based on a ratings shock to CSR performance, an instrumental variables approach, and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we show that the relation is driven by both the social and environmental dimension of CSR. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Corporate social responsibility and access to finance

There have long been calls from industry for guidance in implementing strategies for sustainable development. The Circular Economy represents the most recent attempt to conceptualize the integration of economic activity and environmental wellbeing in a sustainable way. This set of ideas has been adopted by China as the basis of their economic development (included in both the 11th and the 12th ‘Five Year Plan’), escalating the concept in minds of western policymakers and NGOs. This paper traces the conceptualisations and origins of the Circular Economy, tracing its meanings, and exploring its antecedents in economics and ecology, and discusses how the Circular Economy has been operationalized in business and policy. The paper finds that while the Circular Economy places emphasis on the redesign of processes and cycling of materials, which may contribute to more sustainable business models, it also encapsulates tensions and limitations. These include an absence of the social dimension inherent in sustainable development that limits its ethical dimensions, and some unintended consequences. This leads us to propose a revised definition of the Circular Economy as “an economic model wherein planning, resourcing, procurement, production and reprocessing are designed and managed, as both process and output, to maximize ecosystem functioning and human well-being”.

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The Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Concept and Application in a Global Context

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The Detection of Defective Members of Large Populations

Linear Programming and Economic Analysis

Equilibrium conditions for a firm marking decisions with respect to price, quality, and advertising expenditure. Theorems on optimal advertising and optimal quality with fixed prices.

Optimal Advertising and Optimal Quality

Eventually, you will certainly discover a further experience and capability by spending more cash. nevertheless when? do you assume that you require to acquire those all needs in imitation of having significantly cash? Why don't you attempt to get something basic in the beginning? That's something that will lead you to comprehend even more all but the globe, experience, some places, similar to history, amusement, and a lot more?

Robert Dorfman

Papers

The Detection of Defective Members of Large Populations

Linear Programming and Economic Analysis

Optimal Advertising and Optimal Quality

Linear Programming and Economic Analysis.

Design of Water-Resource Systems