It is often forgotten that litigation is only one of many beneficial services that public-interest legal organizations provide to the public. Long before public-interest legal organizations file documents in court, they often seek public agency information through federal and state public...

This article discusses the reasons why the invocation of sectarian references is permissible under the seminal case regarding the constitutionality of legislative prayer, Marsh v. Chambers, despite the confusion within lower federal courts generated by reliance on the dicta of County of...

Entrepreneurial ecosystems play a key role in the development of startups by not only providing support – such as flexible office space and access to skilled employees, mentors and investors – but moreover by promoting concrete ideals about ‘good’ entrepreneurship. In our empirical...

We show that the information on derivatives usage and securitization activities of U.S. banks as disclosed in their pre-crisis 10-K filings predicts their systemic equity risk during the financial crisis. Investors predominantly exited stocks of banks that had previously disclosed a more...

As a consequence of an increasing economization of the healthcare sector, hospitals need to accommodate professional and managerial logics. This paper studies transparency in performance measurement systems (PMSs) and its potential to combine these logics, with the ultimate aim of mitigating...