Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model to explain frontline employee absence as a form of concerted resistance in a public service welfare environment. Design/methodology/approach – Conflicts over absenteeism can be interpreted as a mix of formal and informal struggles...

Policymakers in Latin America increasingly are turning to policies that have high economic rates of return and a favorable impact on income distribution. By providing financial services to small businesses and poor households -which normally lack such services- credit unions help secure growth...

This paper provides a new conceptualisation of high performance government for the public sector. Despite the concerted focus on performance management in both the public and private sectors, the performance puzzle remains. In part, we argue, this is because of a failure to recognise the complex...

Policymakers in Latin America increasingly are turning to policies that have high economic rates of return and a favorable impact on income distribution. By providing financial services to small businesses and poor households -which normally lack such services- credit unions help secure growth...

<DIV>Long before <I>Citizens United</I> and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O’Brien explores how this relationship played...</i></div>

In this paper we apply a learning model from machine learning, to a human trading crowd to understand why the no trade theorem was rejected. Our results reveal that trading volume in a continuous double auction market is associated with inverse learning curves. Inverse learning results from...

The authors study the performance of the rational expectations hypothesis in multiperiod experimental markets with multiple assets. They find that the markets are generally inefficient from the point of view of full information aggregation. However, arbitrage relationships hold and it is not...