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Urban Planning and Information and Communication Technology: Ideas and Facts
Cohen, Galit; van Geenhuizen, Marina; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001
In our modern network world, ICT acts as a connecting and integratingmechanism. Information (data, knowledge)has become a core constellation in an open economy. The avalanche ofinformation supply however, has not keptpace with the use of information by decision-making bodies.Especially in the...
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Transparency in Portuguese local government: A study of its determinants
Ribeiro, Nuno; Nogueira, Sónia; Freitas, Ivone - In: European Financial and Accounting Journal 12 (2017) 3, pp. 191-202
Transparency of public management is fundamental to bringing citizens closer to public managers and as such universally considered an element of good governance. The main aim of this study is to identify the factors determining transparency in public management of Portuguese local authorities....
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Customer oriented service and cost effectiveness: A trade-off relationship?
Yaacob, Zulnaidi - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 7 (2013) 3, pp. 545-554
This paper describes the effect of customer oriented service (COS) on cost effectiveness of local authorities. Although a plethora of evidence had been unearthed regarding the usefulness of COS, particularly in achieving customer satisfaction, the effect of COS on cost effectiveness is...
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Institutional differences in Germany and France: Between spatial reform and persistence
Paris, Didier; Gustedt, Evelyn - In: Cities and metropolises in France and Germany, (pp. 23-39). 2022
Germany and France offer two different models of political and administrative organisation: a federal state on one side of the Rhine and a unitary state on the other, albeit one that has become more decentralised over the last 40 years. Thus, the French régions have reduced capacities for...
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Les différences institutionnelles en Allemagne et en France: Entre réforme territoriale et permanences
Paris, Didier; Gustedt, Evelyn - In: Villes et métropoles en France et en Allemagne, (pp. 24-40). 2023
L'Allemagne et la France se caractérisent par deux modèles différents d'organisation politique et administrative: un État fédéral d'un côté du Rhin et un État unitaire de l'autre, bien qu'il se soit décentralisé au cours des quarante dernières années. Ainsi, les régions françaises...
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Die institutionellen Unterschiede zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich: Von räumlicher Reform bis Beständigkeit
Paris, Didier; Gustedt, Evelyn - In: Städte und Metropolen in Frankreich und Deutschland, (pp. 25-43). 2023
Als Bundesstaat auf der einen Seite des Rheins und als Einheitsstaat auf der anderen Seite, der jedoch in den letzten 40 Jahren stärker dezentralisiert wurde, bieten Deutschland und Frankreich zwei unterschiedliche Modelle der politischen und administrativen Organisation. So haben die...
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Innovationsverhalten in Familienunternehmen
Hülsbeck, Marcel; Lehmann, Erik E.; Weiß, Dominik; … - 2011
Familienunternehmen gelten in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als besonders innovativ und als Hidden Champions der deutschen Wirtschaft. In jüngster Zeit widmen sich Forscher vermehrt der Überprüfung dieser These und kommen zu diametral unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Einerseits wird...
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Evaluation of a long-term transformational leadership development program
Abrell, Carolin; Rowold, Jens; Weibler, Jürgen; … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 3, pp. 205-224
) improved six months after training and later on. Also, leaders' performance (leaders' supervisor ratings) and Organizational …
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North/South contractual design through the REDD+ scheme
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Poudou, Jean-Christophe; … - 2012
compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation … information rent/efficiency trade-off. If the contract is performance-based (resp. conditionality-based), information rents are …
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Self-Evaluations and Performance: Evidence from Adolescence
Himmler, Oliver; Koenig, Tobias - 2012
A positive view of the self is often portrayed as a valuable asset in the sense that it can have performance enhancing … self-evaluations and higher levels of educational performance. However, when we exploit exogenous variation in self … and we obtain a negative effect on performance. We discuss mechanisms that may generate such an adverse causal effect of …
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