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Investigating the Global Productivity Effects of Highly Skilled Labor Migration: How Immigrant Athletes Impact Olympic Medal Counts
Horowitz, Jonathan Joseph - 2011
Labor migration is a defining attribute of today's global economy, as more people live outside their country of birth … opportunity to investigate the movement of a highly skilled labor force (Kahn, 2000). Therefore, the current study will … investigate 21st century labor migration patterns and their relationship to productivity in the context of arguably the largest …
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Das öffentlichen Diensrecht aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Verwaltungswissenschaft
Ziller, Jacques - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2006
International comparisons of Civil Services usually overlook the difficulties due to differing definitions of the civil service in national legal systems. Comparative statistics are therefore extremely misleading, as they are at best based on formal-legal criteria instead of being based on...
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The Ups and Downs of Bureaucratic Organization
Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007
Why do democracies give birth to bureaucracies and bureaucrats? How and why has a seemingly undesirable and unviable organizational form weathered relentless criticism over many years and is possibly experiencing a renaissance? Normative democratic theory, theories of formal organizations, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040226
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EU Governance: Where do we go from here?
Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2008
How can students of the European Union get from describing recent advances, to speculating about what are possible new directions and research agendas? How promising are terms such as “governance” and “the new governance” for improving the understanding how the Union is overned and...
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Elaborating the "New Institutionalism"
March, James G.; Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2005
To sketch an institutional approach, this paper elaborates ideas presented over 20 years ago in The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life (March and Olsen 1984). Institutionalism, as that term is used here, connotes a general approach to the study of political...
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An information processing approach to public organizations: The case of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency
Blom; Tannelie; Carraro, Valentina - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 18 (2014) 02
This article presents the results of a single-case study done in order to probe a specific version of an information processing approach to the study of (public) organizations. The case used for this probe is the European Fundamental Rights Agency. The article demonstrates that the information...
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Democratic government, institutional autonomy and the dynamics of change
Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2009
Against the backdrop of decades of public sector reforms in Europe, this essay aims to make sense of the processes through which institutions, democratic government included, achieve and lose autonomy or primacy and why it is difficult to find a state of equilibrium between democratic government...
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Political leadership and bureaucratic autonomy. Effects of agencification
Egeberg, Morten; Trondal, Jarle - ARENA - 2009
Previous studies have shown that agencification tends to undermine political control within a government portfolio. However, doubts have been raised as regards the robustness of these findings. In this paper we document that agency officials pay significantly less attention to signals from...
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Web-based public participatory GIS
Yigitcanlar, Tan; Gudes, Ori - 2008
Decision support systems (DSS) have evolved rapidly during the last decade from stand alone or limited networked solutions to online participatory solutions. One of the major enablers of this change is the fastest growing areas of geographical information system (GIS) technology development that...
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Extending life-cycle costing (LCC) analysis for sustainability considerations in road infrastructure projects
Goh, Kai Chen; Yang, Jay - 2009
Sustainable development is about making societal investments. These investments should be in synchronization with the natural environment, trends of social development, as well as organisational and local economies over a long time span. Traditionally in the eyes of clients, project development...
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