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every day, yet that very activity has been relegated to a marginal position in political governance. Most businesses and …
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This paper discusses the problems regarding the decentralisation of a formerly communist country. In Georgia, the first … steps towards decentralisation failed, since the transition process led to a power vacuum that escalated in bloody conflicts … unsolved. This may be one of the reasons why the most recent attempts of decentralisation are rather hesitant. It is far from …
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The majority of the literature on fiscal decentralization has tended to stress that the greater capacity of decentralized governments to tailor policies to local preferences and to be innovative in the provision of policies and public services, the greater the potential for economic efficiency...
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examine its overall evaluation and governance from the perspective of science and technology policies. Although China … factors. Our hope is to provide guiding insights for improving the governance of China’s biotechnology industry both in policy …
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separate and distinct governance arrangements for each of these functions due to their criticality to achieving social outcomes … determine the types of entities and arrangements that will best contribute to successful collaborative governance. Stewardship … theory is revisited to provide a lens through which asset management governance can be examined. It is argued that the …
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This study investigates the relationship between a firm’s risk and the effectiveness of the firm’s corporate governance … corporate governance variables in firm performance should be evaluated in the context of the firm’s risk. …
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opportunity for sustainable advantage) are predictors of selecting the governance mode between e-collaboration and arm …’s-length relationship, and that an intention to e-collaborate moderates the governance mode choice. Originality/value – Testable … desired governance mode. …
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delivery. Among these, governance networks have become a widespread mechanism for planning and delivering infrastructure …. However, despite substantial public investments in road infrastructure that are made through governance networks, little is …. Although governance networks undertake management functions, it is unclear what drives stakeholder engagement within this …
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Innovation can be defined broadly to include the development and uptake of new technology, the introduction of new products, the utilisation of new market opportunities and the implementation of new business processes including new forms of work organisation or management structures and...
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There are two key approaches to entrepreneurship, each of which has different implications for small business policy (Danson 2002). The first conceives of entrepreneurship as an economic process and can be traced to the work of Joseph Schumpeter who developed the concept of creative destruction...
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