The Europe 2020 strategy could be seen as the application of public management reforms to the problem of governance of the economies of Europe. It was not simply an economic plan but included strategic goals on employment, R & D, climate change and sustainability, education, poverty and social...

La recherche sur les réformes publiques inscrite dans la tradition des sciences administratives et politiques recouvre trois orientations (Hood, 2005) :dans les années ’80 un travail analytique centré sur la nouvelle gestion publique, dans les années ’90 l’élaboration d’une base de...

Both policy implementation and administrative reforms have increasingly come to rely on "instrumental" management methods that fail to treat adequately cognitive biases, bureaucratic ritualism, co-ordination issues and political sensitivities. This paper explores the potential of exploratory,...

This paper presents the result of a foresight research on the Belgian penal justice system. The purpose and method of this study are discussed and compared with other foresight exercises. This study’s distinctive features are the exploration of three levels (professions, organizations, and...

This paper uses a very large sample of French SMEs to study growth of family owned firms. Firms range from total-family to minority control. The estimated relationship accounts for firm characteristics of size and, age, sector, and financial solvency. The results show that firms with greater...

In this paper we argue that Leading Academic Performance (LAP) expectations in universities are gendered, hindering female academic leadership. Integrating concepts from social identity theory of leadership, prototypicality, and social identity performance we describe how evaluations of female...

In this short paper, we have gone through some key results of monetary policy research applied for the Vietnamese economy, over the past 20 years after Doi Moi, together with a few caveats when putting these results in use. We look at different research themes, and suggest that future research...

This paper analyzes the location decisions and geographical expansion of microfinance institutions across Peru. To this end, econometric analyses are performed on a self-constructed dataset that covers MFI presence and expansion in the 1832 districts of Peru, and this for 39 MFIs and 13...

This paper represents the first research attempt to estimate the probabilities for Vietnamese patients to fall into destitution facing financial burdens occurring during their curative stay in hospital. The study models the risk against such factors as level of insurance coverage, location of...

Bitcoin is a major virtual currency. Using weekly data over the 2010-2013 period, we analyze a Bitcoin investment from the standpoint of a U.S. investor with a diversified portfolio including both traditional assets (worldwide stocks, bonds, hard currencies) and alternative investments...