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Linked Games, International Organisations and Agricultural Trade

Coleman, William D.; Tangermann, Stefan - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies - 1998

AbstractOver the past decade, most OECD countries have begun to reform fundamentally their agricultural policies. Some dispute has emerged over the extent to which policy-making at the international level has triggered these reforms. These disputes raise important theoretical questions about how...

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Facts about the Relationship between the Project Management (PM) and the Quality Management (QM) in Compliance with the Standards in Force

Ionică, Andreea - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 5 (2005), pp. 169-172

This paper intends to underline the aspects which connect the Project Management (PM) to the Quality Management (QM … in connection with Project Management (PM). These aspects are present in the series of quality standards ISO 10006 and … ISO 10007, which led to some interpretations which ink Project Management (PM) with Quality Management (QM). …

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Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...

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Leaders in the Land of Oz: The Management of Leadership Images

PASTOR, JUAN CARLOS; MAYO, MARGARITA - Área de Entorno Económico, Instituto de Empresa - 2002

(WP32/02 Clave pdf) As the Wizard of Oz, many business leaders find themselves at increasing geographical, cultural and psychological distance from their followers. Traditionally, the image of a leader in front of his/her followers was transmitted, for the most part, through face-to-face...

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Dynamic Representation: The Case of European Integration

Schmitt, Hermann; Thomassen, Jacques - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

This paper asks two questions. First, why are party voters less favourable towards specific EU policies than party elites? Second, how does political representation of EU preferences actually work, is it an elite- or a mass-driven process? The data-sets of the European Election Studies 1979 and...

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Should top universities be led by top researchers, and are they?

Goodall, Amanda H - EconWPA - 2005

This paper addresses the question: should the world’s top universities be led by top researchers, and are they? The lifetime citations are counted by hand of the leaders of the world’s top 100 universities identified in a global university ranking. These numbers are then normalised by...

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Women Mangers Through the Paradigm of Power and Gender Awareness

Balog, Alenka Zuraj - In: Management 2 (2007) 1, pp. 65-77

Women leadership and women leading in educational management can be monitored and interpreted through the lenses of a … of the basic concepts of leadership. The second aspect measures the recognition of gender consciousness in women leaders …

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Should Research Universities be Led by Top Researchers? Part 1: Are they?

Goodall, Amanda H - EconWPA - 2005

If the best universities in the world – who have the widest choice of candidates – systematically appoint top researchers as their vice chancellors and presidents, is this one form of evidence that, on average, better researchers make better leaders? This paper addresses the first part of...

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High status for all? Cheating the zero-sum mechanism of happiness.

Galochkin, Igor - EconWPA - 2005

We state the following hypotheses: 1) Happiness depends on social rank – a term from primatology meaning the place in group hierarchy which determines mating chances, number of offspring and food share; this dependence explains the correlation between relative income and subjective well-being...

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The benefits of leadership in the banking deposit market: A comparison between Cournot and Stackelberg

Ruiz-Porras, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We analyze the effects of leadership in banking when oligopolistic competition exists in the market of deposits. We … leader-follower strategies). Our main findings suggest that there are private and social benefits associated to leadership …. Moreover, leadership enhances financial stability and efficiency in banking. …

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