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Performance Measurement in Corporate Governance: Do Mergers Improve Managerial Performance in the Post-Merger Period?

Feroz, Ehsan H.; Kim, Sungsoo; Raab, Raymond L. - 2005

"Inspired by the Coase (1937) theory of the firm, we analyze the performance of Healy, Palepu, and Ruback (1992) sample …

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Network Governance of the Commons

Carlsson, Lars; Sandström, Annica - 2006

closely related to network governance and social network theory, than to political administrative hierarchy. However, so far …

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The Missing Link: Collective-Choice Policymaking in Nonprofit, For-Profit, and Public Child Care Centers

Bushouse, Brenda K. - 1999

to explain nonprofit production of certain types of goods. Hansmann (1980, 1986) developed Contract Failure Theory to …. Weisbrod (1977, 1988) developed the theory of Market/Government Failure to explain nonprofit production of collective goods … primary justification for the nonprofit institutional form. In Contract Failure Theory it signals quality to consumers because …

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Creating Institutions for Survival Games Against Nature in Premodern Iceland

Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1994

"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...

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The Concept of Coproduction and its Implications for Public Service Delivery

Kiser, Larry L.; Percy, Stephen L. - 1980

"Contrary to most economic theory, consumers are not always easily distinguished from producers, particularly in the …

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Equilibrium Results in Committee Settings: Theory and Experiments on Decision Costs

Herzberg, Roberta; Wilson, Rick K. - 1987

"In this paper we formulate a cost-induced equilibrium concept. This equilibrium is generated from transaction costs connected with a sequential agenda process. Our claim is that most collective choice Institutions carry with them decision costs. If these transaction costs are very large, they...

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Concerted Action and the Transformer Dilemma: Overcoming Uncertainty in Electricity Provision for Irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India

Kimmich, C. - 2011

"The dilemma structure underlying common-pool resource governance may prevail due to irreconcilable interests of actors, and may involve uncertainties resulting from the resource or actors involved. This paper addresses the knowledge and uncertainty problem in an analysis of electricity...

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