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Revisiting institutional credibility of informal rental housing in Shenzhen: For dwelling function or exclusion function?
Zhou, Ziqi; Yau, Yung - In: Journal of Urban Management 12 (2023) 2, pp. 112-128
institutional functions toward the interaction between function and dysfunction, and their substitutability in the relation … the interplay of the function and dysfunction embedded in its institutional environment. …
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Anreize bei der Budgetierung: Welche dysfunktionalen Verhaltensweisen der Manager resultieren aus der Berliner Median-Budgetierung?
Bögel, Simon - 2012
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht das Zusammenspiel von Motiven und Anreizen sowie beobachtbaren dysfunktionalen Verhaltensweisen von Managern bei der Berliner Median-Budgetierung. Von einer Literaturrecherche ausgehend wird zunächst das theoretische Konzept der Dysfunktionen näher gehend...
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Strategy, corporate culture, structure and operational processes as the context for the innovativeness of an organization
Szczepańska-Woszczyna, Katarzyna - In: Foundations of Management 10 (2018) 1, pp. 33-44
The paper refers to relationships between the innovativeness of an organization and its selected determinants such as strategy, corporate culture, structure and operational processes. Research was conducted among 200 managers at the top, middle and operational levels of management (200 companies...
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The Various Possible EU Taxes
Mihalache, Raluca-Andreea - In: CES Working Papers 4 (2012) 3a, pp. 566-573
In this article, the various possible EU taxes are compared with regard to each of the criteria: budgetary, equity and efficiency criteria. In principle, this problem of revenue insufficiency can be overcome by combining several resources, including contributions from the Member States, to make...
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Socially Useless Jobs
Dur, Robert A. J.; van Lent, Max - 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
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The Sociocultural and Institutional factors influencing Tax Avoidance in sub-Sahara Africa
Kimea, Alfred James; Mkhize, Msizi; Maama, Haruna - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 1, pp. 1-15
management quality, regulatory quality, auditing quality, culture, and ethics of a country. This result has several policy …
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More than money: The critical role of management in educational aid effectiveness in Africa
Asare, Abigail Opokua - 2025
quality of aid has significant contribution toward achieving inclusive, equitable, and quality education on the continent by … investigates whether the impact of World Bank-funded educational projects across Africa on literacy rates depends on the quality of … aid. By prioritizing high-quality management practices, policymakers and international organizations could improve the …
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Socially Useless Jobs
Dur, Robert; van Lent, Max - 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984487
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Management practices and the quality of primary care
Angelis, Jannis; Häger Glenngård, Anna; Jordahl, Henrik - 2017
Using the World Management Survey method, we map and analyse management quality in Swedish primary care centres. On … average, private providers have higher management quality than public ones. We also find that centres with a high overall … social deprivation among enrolled patients tend to have higher management quality. Regarding quality of care, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917050
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Fixed-prize tournaments versus first-price auctions in innovation contests
Schöttner, Anja - 2005
This paper analyzes a procurement setting with two identical firms and stochastic innovations. In contrast to the previous literature, I show that a procurer who cannot charge entry fees may prefer a fixed-prize tournament to a first-price auction since holding an auction may leave higher rents...
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