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Soft situational strategic planning (SSSP) : a method and case study of its application in a Brazilian municipality

Paucar-Caceres, Alberto; Santos, Paloma Ribeiro dos; … - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 71 (2020) 3, pp. 363-380

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Revisiting the relationship between product diversification and internationalization process in the context of emerging market MNEs

Finchelstein, Diego - In: Journal of world business : JWB 52 (2017) 4, pp. 578-590

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Book Review Essay: Publicâ€“Private Partnering in Natural Resource Extraction

Stevenson, Michael - In: Global Environmental Politics 14 (2014) 3, pp. 139-145

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Sacred Values? The Effect of Information on Attitudes toward Payments for Human Organs

Elias, Julio J.; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Many economic transactions are prohibited—even in the absence of health or safety concerns or negative externalities—because of ethical concerns that cause these exchanges to be perceived as “repugnant” if conducted through a market. Establishing a system of payments for human organs is...

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Political connections and operational performance of non-financial firms: New evidence from Poland

Jackowicz, Krzysztof; Kozłowski, Łukasz; Mielcarz, Paweł - In: Emerging Markets Review 20 (2014) C, pp. 109-135

This study analyses the impact of political connections on the operational performance of non-financial firms in Poland. Using a data set covering the 2001–2011 period, we find that political connections lower firm profitability, as measured on the level of income from sales. The negative...

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Evaluating the capability of the UK Treasury, 1990-2013

Allen, Richard - In: OECD Journal on Budgeting 13 (2013) 3, pp. 1-29

The strength of the United Kingdom’s central finance agency (H.M. Treasury) has been attributed to its broad and powerful influence on policy issues; the high intellectual standards of its staff; the relatively clear division between the “official” treasury and the political level; and the...

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The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools

Cullen, Julie Berry; Levitt, Steven; Jacob, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

Current education reform proposals involve improving educational outcomes through forms of market-based competition and expanded parental choice. In this paper, we explore the impact of choice through open enrollment within the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Roughly half of the students within...

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Partners in Crime: Collusive Corruption and Search

Nabin, Munirul; Bose, Gautam - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 8 (2008) 1, pp. 1926-1926

This paper analyzes corruption as a collusive act which requires the participation of two willing partners. An agent intending to engage in a corrupt act must search for a like-minded partner. When many people in the economy are corrupt, such a search is more likely to be fruitful. Thus when an...

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Estado ¿versus? Mercado/State ¿Versus? Market

BEL, GERMÀ - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 22 (2004) Agosto, pp. 231-249

. The State and the Market are imperfect institutions. Nonetheless, both of them have been idealized by their strongest … supporters. Consequently, demands on the State and the Market have been much stronger than these institutions could reasonably … provide. Also, the economists have used for a long time to look at the relationship between state and market as if they were …

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The Economics of Vouchers

Bradford, David F.; Shaviro, Daniel N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

This paper aims to provide a swift tour of the economic issues presented by vouchers and thus to fill an apparent gap in the literature for a basic survey of the subject. Among the issues it considers are: factors determining a voucher's cash-equivalence; reasons (such as paternalism,...

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