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State of Corporate Governance in Arab Countries: An Overview
Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to assess the state of corporate governance as a major factor affecting the growth … synthesized. Strengths and weaknesses of corporate governance in selected Arab countries have been highlighted. One major key … Principles of corporate governance. However, practices are not. The difficulty of the assessments is to reflect properly the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835438
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The Nigerian Wars, Regional Crises and Ethnic Disturbances: Policy Responses and Democratic Implications
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
. Consequently, the paper recommends the adoption of e-governance(development as a therapy for a heterogenous and divisible nation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835516
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Governing of agrarian innovations
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper adapts the principles of the new developing New Institutional and Transaction Cost Economics (integrating Economics, Organization, Law, Political and Behavioral Sciences) to the area of agrarian research and innovations. The major institutional, behavioral, dimensional, technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835583
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Political Alternation as a Restraint on Investing in Influence: Evidence from the Post-Communist Transition
Milanovic, Branko; Hoff, Karla; Horowitz, Shale - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
associated with the emergence of better governance in postcommunist countries. The results are consistent with the hypothesis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835944
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Firms on SourceForge
Eilhard, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper explores empirically what factors influence a firm’s decision to contribute and to take leadership in open source projects. Increasing firms’ participation in the development of open source software (OSS) is generally perceived as a puzzle. Assuming that firms face a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837361
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Institutional Causality of Soft Budget Constraints in Chinese Higher Education Sector and its Implications for Governance
Huang, Weiting; Pang, Xiaobo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
the institutional causality of soft budget constraint and its applications for governance. We concluded three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837456
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Togo: recent political and economic development
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Backed by peaceful but undemocratic presidential (2010) and legislative (July 2013) elections the Gnassingbé regime consolidated its power. In view of the absolute majority of the ruling party, its inclination for meaningful constitutional and electoral reforms, as demanded by the opposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240406
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Legislative Vetoes and Corruption: The Effect of Formal Checks on Governance
B. Heller, William; P. Kyriacou, Andreas; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
What keeps corruption in check? Politicians have incentives to both avoid and actively oppose corruption when voters can hold them accountable for it. But to punish malfeasance voters have to know about it, and corrupt actors don’t want such information to be easy to find. Moreover, we argue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150774
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Why policies fail? An institutional model explaining success and failure factors of rural development policies in Europe
Mantino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
macro and “meso” dimensions of success and failure. This analysis take under consideration governance and rules as the main … rules and governance structures in relation to the impact they perceive on the resource allocation and the transaction costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257791
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The Triple Helix as a Highly Charged Intellectual Enterprise
Todeva, Emanuela; Etzkiwitz, Henry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Reflections on the evolution of the Triple Helix movement and the discussions at its latest conference in 2014.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257855