kambeiz talebi, the author of the article discusses the urgent needfor topmanagers to change their style in small entrepreneurial firms during a business life cycle. although most leadership theories assume that it is an easy task, but the case studies and practical experience suggest the opposite - managers find it hard to move from an innovative style when the company is young to taskoriente...

Kambeiz Talebi, the author of the Article discusses the urgent needfor topmanagers to change their style in small entrepreneurial firms during a business life cycle. Although most leadership theories assume that it is an easy task, but the case studies and practical experience suggest the opposite - managers find it hard to move from an innovative style when the company is young to taskoriente...

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PROBLEM As countries expand health insurance coverage, their expenditures on medicines increase. To address this problem, WHO has recommended that every country draw up a list of essential medicines. Although most medicines on the list are generics, in many countries patented medicines represent a substantial portion of pharmaceutical expenditure. APPROACH To help control expenditure on paten...

RFID based automatic fair price shop is novel approach in public distribution system (PDS) useful for more efficient, accurate, and automated technique of ration distribution. Public distribution system also called rationing distribution system is one of the wide controversial issues that involve malpractices. The present ration distribution system has drawbacks like inaccurate quantity of good...

A price reveal auction is a Dutch auction in which the current price of the item on sale remains hidden. Bidders can privately observe the price only by paying a fee, and every time a bidder does so, the price falls by a predetermined amount. We show that in equilibrium, no rational bidder should enter into such an auction. Contrary to this prediction, data about actual price reveal auctions ru...

a Department of Energy Economics, School of Economics, Renmin University, Beijing 100872, China b Center for Ecological Economy Research, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China c Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), 68161 Mannheim, Germany d Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics, Heidelberg University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany e School of Public Policy and Management, Tsin...

We provide the first analysis of potential competition in the generic drug industry. Our identification strategy exploits a provision of the Hatch-Waxman Act that rewards 180 days of marketing exclusivity to the first generic drug applicant against the holder of a branded drug patent. This provision creates observable drug-level variation in both actual and potential competition that allows us ...