Within the field of strategy, the thesis deals with the role of social movements inthe process of deinstitutionalization through the concept of repertoire of tactics. This research studies how social movement actions lead to the delegitimization of a taken for granted practice. We focus on the...

This paper explores the conditions under which anti-corruption initiatives are launched in Bulgaria and their impact on local practices. An examination of the Toplofikacija affair suggests that efforts to curb illegal practices need to be understood as being at the intersection of several actors...

This article aims at studying the impact of return on education on criminal behaviour. A dynamic model of time allocation between investment in human capital, labour and criminal activity is developed, assuming that these activities are substitutable and endogenous. Our attention focuses on the...

In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) the informal sector is a major engine for employment, entrepreneurship and growth. The high incidence of corruption is another distinctive feature of SSA. According to the last Transparency International Corruption Perception Index almost 70% of SSA countries ranked...

The purpose of this research was to examine student perceptions of academic integrity among faculty and peers at a sample of public universities in Romania. The study explores the factors that influence academic dishonesty among college students and compares the relative importance of faculty...

Public institutions are organized configurations which are prone to institutionalization processes. They reflect as well as produce and diffuse valuues, norms, cognitions, meanings and identities about life and evolution of society, polity or economy. The text covers a set of theories which...

From post-war era beginning until 1956 - the year which the ministry of Labour celebrated the first half-century it had been in existence -, its division for Labour and Employment was a strikingly stable organisation. Nearly each of its high-ranking managers (the assistant principals, the...

This conceptual paper introduces various models to describe and pilot complexity across organizations, through a compared study on three objects: the town, the IS and the firm. We suggest three organizational models which follow each other in the time: the feudal model, the functionalist model,...