While much attention has been given to reputation mechanisms to deter fraudulent behavior in online auctions, we know little about the nature of disputes or the types of problems that users face. This is an exploratory analysis of 129 disputes for six different types of products that were sold on eBay. In the descriptive and multinomial analysis, we find eight different types of disputes includ...

Networked systems often consist of inter-dependent subsystems that are governed by locally determined heterogeneous preferences or policies. Examples include interdomain routing, peer-to-peer storage, and decentralised security systems. This dissertation introduces a notion called dispute — a cyclic structure that underlies the dependence and preferences of subsystems. Disputes may cause advers...

This paper investigates the effects of the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) on trade disputes. We construct a unique and comprehensive dataset on inter-country trade disputes from 1995 to 2007. The dataset covers 110 countries and 1130 trade disputes. We find that the incidences of trade disputes between two countries are positively associated with economic size, economic growth, and t...

Abstract Mary Parker Follett was a feminist-pragmatist American philosopher, social-settlement worker, founding figure in the community centers movement, mediator of labor disputes, and theorist political social organization management. I argue that she is model for certain kind public unpack respects which serves as such model. emphasize both her virtues thinker role played work by process int...

Job dissatisfaction among nurses contributes to costly labor disputes, turnover, and risk to patients. Examining survey data from 95,499 nurses, we found much higher job dissatisfaction and burnout among nurses who were directly caring for patients in hospitals and nursing homes than among nurses working in other jobs or settings, such as the pharmaceutical industry. Strikingly, nurses are part...

Final offer arbitration (FOA) and conventional arbitration (ARE) are compared as mechanisms for settling labor disputes. It is recognized that the parties can manipulate their final offers under FOA in order to achieve a more desirable outcome, and the equilibrium pair of final offers is derived as a function of the uncertainty about the arbitrator's award and the relative risk preferences of t...

Viviana Zelizer’s recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy (2005), presents an innovative theory of how social and legal actors negotiate rights and obligations when money changes hands in intimate relationships—a perspective that could change how we understand many things, from valuations of homemaking labor to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. This essay describes Zelizer’s critique of the redu...

BACKGROUND/RATIONALE Many interpersonal labor disputes stem from the lack of communication skills and the relational problems in the interactions between health professionals. AIMS/METHODS A qualitative study was conducted in a Spanish hospital in order to get to know how the communicative interaction between hospital nurses is like in relation to the nurses' interpersonal interaction and com...

Purpose This paper aims to study the impact of human resource heterogeneity on firms’ cash-holding policies. Design/methodology/approach The authors construct a proxy for using dissimilarity in employees’ skill structure between firm and its peers same industry. Findings report evidence that firms with heterogeneous resources hold more cash than other firms. effect is pronounced labor-intensive...