The temporal persistence and geographical prevalence of corruption in the world have provoked a vast amount of research into its causes. Low civil service remuneration, especially in less developed nations, is believed to be an important contributing factor to corruption. The assumption is that...

The temporal persistence and geographical prevalence of corruption in the world have provoked a vast amount of research into its causes. Low civil service remuneration, especially in less developed nations, is believed to be an important contributing factor to corruption. The assumption is that...

The temporal persistence and geographical prevalence of corruption in the world have provoked a vast amount of research into its causes. Low civil service remuneration, especially in less developed nations, is believed to be an important contributing factor to corruption. The assumption is that...

This article examines a particular type of central mandate in China, the mandate for nationwide across-the-board salary increases in the public sector. The making and implementation of this mandate epitomizes the changes and challenges in intergovernmental relations of a transition economy. Our...

The emergence of Peer-to-Peer, Collective or Community Self-Consumption, and Transactive Energy concepts gives rise to new configurations of business models for local energy trading among a variety of actors. While much attention is paid in the academic literature to the transition of the...

This paper explored factors that influence technology trust beliefs, with a focus on differences between emerging and existing technologies. It was the first piece of evidence to test the “Faith-Confidence” grouping of technology trust predictors and it included two studies, based on PLS-SEM...