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The author examines the theoretical difficulties of implementing decisions and awards of foreign courts in Russia … educational background of legal professionals – especially judges – in Russia. It is suggested that the statist conception of law … of law developing in the mentality of legal professionals in Russia …
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This paper examines changes in the motivation of physicians at work since the start of the salary reforms in 2008. These reforms included a shift from a fixed salary system to performance-based remuneration and an overall increase in salaries. The data of six surveys of health workers from...
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In this paper we investigate cognitive biases as a potential reason for the varied results of M&A in emerging capital markets. We focus on two cognitive biases, CEO overconfidence and availability bias, which significantly influence CEO behavior, encouraging them to be irrational in M&A deals....
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-sectional data of manufacturing firms in six EU countries and in Russia. To address heterogeneity, we explore innovation performance … Russia and in the EU. In the EU, female CEOs are associated with less innovation, especially in SMEs and in the traditional … sector. In Russia, CEO gender is not associated with differences in innovative performance and when it is (for the …
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policies in Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of MNCs during the anticipated period of economic recession in Russia …
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Following a public sphere approach to civil society research, we develop a working definition of Critical Capacity to analyze what leaders of Russian nonprofit organizations (NPOs) say regarding their political embeddedness. Theoretically, we stress the value added of differentiating more...
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When does business support the expansion of social policy in the developing world? Existing work on managers …
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We test the ability of boards of directors to eliminate the negative impact of CEO behavior on payout policy. We contribute to the literature by testing the ability of boards to influence CEO payout propensity. First, we show that if the compensation scheme of a CEO does not stimulate him or her...
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Bank risk-taking behavior is of significant interest for researches and policy makers because financial failures due to excessive risk in this sector can have severe consequences for the bank's numerous stakeholders and for the macroeconomic system overall. A growing literature investigates the...
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This is the first paper to explore which characteristics of Russian fund managers are connected with a higher abnormal … return (measured by Jensen's alpha) and risk (beta) for mutual funds. While only some fund managers publish biographic …
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