infonet-economy

The systems approach in which this work is grounded enables the development of the new kind of intelligent organizations so urgently needed. Powerful models, based on organizational cybernetics and system dynamics, are presented in a way that lets the reader immediately apply them in practice. This book will be a rich source of improvement for any kind of organization, whether…

The purpose of this chapter is to draw some lessons from an experience with the creation and implementation of innovative management models. The case in point is Cilag AG, one of the leading Swiss firms in the pharmaceutical industry. The demand for new and better management support has led to an organisational process whose emergence has been brought about with the help of…

Aufgrund neuer gesetzlicher Bestimmungen sehen sich derzeit in der Schweiz nicht nur Grossunternehmen, sondern auch mittelgrosse Unternehmen mit Herausforderungen hinsichtlich des Risikomanagements und des Internen Kontrollsystems konfrontiert. Der Verwaltungsrat ist sowohl für das Risikomanagement als auch für das Interne Kontrollsystem verantwortlich. Allerdings werden die…

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and nonmedical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. This paper argues that both types of input have an additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004, medical and…

Referendums have experienced some sort of a comeback. Citizen involvement in political decisions is seen increasingly as a healthy add-on in democratic polities. While earlier writers on democratic theory often saw a danger in increased participation of citizens, more recently several authors suggest that this participation should be fostered. I argue in this paper that both sides in…

Background The Psychiatric arm of the population-based CoLaus study (PsyCoLaus) is designed to: 1) establish the prevalence of threshold and subthreshold psychiatric syndromes in the 35 to 66 year-old population of the city of Lausanne (Switzerland); 2) test the validity of postulated definitions for subthreshold mood and anxiety syndromes; 3) determine the associations between…

From the economic point of view, common law is more efficient than civil law. Is this recent statement published in an economic report valid for mergers and acquisitions (M&A)? The main objective of this paper is to compare the legal performance of M&A in France and in the United States. The purpose is to quantify the impact of both legal systems on the long-term performance…