Food markets visitors: a typology proposal

A Typology of Hybrid Governance: Proposal and Empirical Validation

Firms are increasingly selecting hybrid governance in interfirm relationships to execute a wide range of activities. To aid cumulative theory building, we propose a typology of hybrid governance identifying four types characterized by the levels of two types of asset specificity pertaining to intangible assets: process specificity and expertise specificity. We validate the typology this using d...

Toward the Development of a Typology of Illegal Drug Markets

Ethnographic research is particularly well suited to investigate emergent phenomena and to access and describe populations and social environments which are obscured from normal observation. Ongoing ethnographic research on Manhattan's Lower East Side combines direct observation and qualitative interviews to describe the wide variety of local retail drug markets, the social contexts in which th...

Traceability systems in the German food industry – towards a typology

The great variety of traceability systems in the German food industry makes it difficult to describe them coherently and to distinguish them clearly one from another. Therefore a classification system or typology is needed to facilitate their description and analysis. This study suggests an approach to extract distinguishing aspects from a detailed description of traceability systems for pork. ...

Nordic Food Markets – a taste for competition

Matching Markets: Design and Analysis Thesis Proposal

A market consists of buyers and sellers of some commodity, say a DVD movie. In this thesis, we assume the role of market operator. Our goal is to ensure that the market has certain desirable properties, which may include fairness, revenue maximization, and so on. We achieve these properties by designing rules for how buyers and sellers can perform transactions. Our main focus will be on matchin...