...Massimiliano Nicoli; Luca Paltrinieri This paper focalizes on the economic model of digital platforms as a new method of coordinating the production of value. We suggest that the advent of “platform capitalism” is symptomatic of a crisis of the model of the firm understood as a space separated from...

... truths, each of which claims to be the only possible truth. It is argued that these truths are products of a situated antagonistic struggle, which, rather than indicating a firm belief, are used to serve the purposes of a game of power seeking. The search for truth in the battle of good against evil...

... salt in the wounds. The recipient of Wolfe s wrath toward publishers was not the firm which published his first book; rather it was the firm which was the first to reject it. One of Wolfe s most caustic satires is his account of the publish­ ing firm of Rawng and Wright in Chapter 32 of The Web...

... firms. While Negroes made up 25.4 per cent of the North Carolina population, they held only 14.5 per cent of the jobs in the three employment fields. No breakdown of the jobs was available. But the department s public relations director said most of the Negro jobs probably were in the unskilled...

.... It was as profitable for the Pittsburgh producers to sell in distant markets as in nearby markets. Producers at other locations were not in such a position. When a distant firm sold near Pittsburgh, its returns were lowered because freight costs rose while delivered prices fell.22 Firms distant from Pittsburgh were...

..., and adequate lighting. William Holabird, with two years at West Point, and Martin Roche, with a public school background only, expressed this structural pragmatism for a long list of Chicago businessmen.21 But the major representative of commer­ cial architecture was the firm of Burnham and Root, credited...

... instruction to make sure that the plant s technology is equal to the best available in the world. However, he writes, how am I supposed to know what the best technology is that is available in the world? I have very few catalogues of foreign firms, and besides, most of them are a number of years old...

... around deactivation of driver permis- sions and other disciplinary procedures connected to ratings. This data grid seems local that is most of the above decisions seem to be structured through local data and this data is located entirely within the firm. 2. DATA FOR MEDIUM TERM PRODUCT REORGANIZATION...

... of the book trade yet written. His autobiography, The Truth About a Publisher, will be read by some as a supplement to the earlier work, and as a case history of the creation of a successful publishing firm the book makes fascinating reading. The account of his apprenticeship in the firm of his uncle, T...

... differentiation within different industries (Palier and Thelen 2012). Three decades ago, the wage structure in Ger- many was comparatively compressed, and only the Nordic countries had more egalitarian wages. Firms did not compete for workers by offering higher wages. Comprehensive collective agreement...

... comments tend to con­ firm the widely held notion that ownership of United Fruit stock has represented an unusually lucrative investment; but the author emphasizes the high risks of the business, from plantation to pushcart, and the high mortality among the banana firms started in 1880-1900. He insists...

... sort, for it is loaded with business details. Her book is not easy to read. Book Reviews 417 Along with her account of the firm to 1921, Mrs. Ballou provides a survey of the course of the Atlantic Monthly ending in 1908, at which time the journal was sold to Ellery Sedgwick and others, who then formed...

... scramble for Africa. Goldie s achievements were remarkable. After a wild and turbulent youth, including a three-year idyll with an Arab girl in the Sudan, he went to the Niger delta on behalf of a small trading firm in 1875. The situation that confronted him was gloomy. The British consul at Fernan­ do...

... area while it was being subjected to the so-called scramble for Africa. Goldie s achievements were remarkable. After a wild and turbulent youth, including a three-year idyll with an Arab girl in the Sudan, he went to the Niger delta on behalf of a small trading firm in 1875. The situation...

... interest, and it is fortunate that the scales were tipped in favor of publication. From small beginnings at Biddeford, near the falls of the Saco River in Maine, Pepperell grew into a large, integrated firm with mills in Book Reviews 109 Maine, Massachusetts, Georgia, and Alabama. Growth in size resulted...

... was stressed as a practical remedy rather than as a political end. In the case of the Bank of England, likewise marked for nationalization, the major objective was effective control over future capital investment. For other mo­ nopolies and cartels there would be firm controls. The document warned further...

... and underemployment in our economy, which is manifested most dramatically in the South, are caused by wage rigidities. In order to increase the mobility of labor among jobs, he urges that firms be granted local subsidies which can be used directly or indirectly to offset inflexible wages. In a well-written chapter...

.... Martin s Press, 1968. Pp. 384. $10.95. Probably the only sources of information about the authors of the past century or more that remain relatively unexplored are the archives of publishing firms. Unhappily many have been discarded when they grew too bulky or (in London) were destroyed by enemy action...

... who led the firm to ruin, though for a while his spirits were at low ebb, he finally triumphed again by taking advantage of the easy consciences of French officials in charge of French co­ lonial affairs during a native rebellion. He died the proud Eng­ lishman that he had lived, happy in the esteem...

... and affirmed that an approved code would be considered binding on all members of a given industry, including those that might refrain from signing it. Code violations were declared misdemeanors. Perhaps the most controversial section of the act empowered the President to license firms found in violation...