Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,289
Cover Image
Corporate Political Activities and the Strategic Management
BUSOI, Simona; ISTOCESCU, Amedeo - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 12 (2011) 6, pp. 146-151
At this present rate of supersaturation of the markets, the interaction between economic actors and political officials gains a momentum without precedent. Difficulties faced by corporations generate lobby activities intended for soliciting financial support, public-private partnerships are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650098
Cover Image
Lobbying in the European Union: From Sui Generis to a Comparative Perspective
Woll, Cornelia - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2006
This article reviews the literature on lobbying in the European Union. After initial surveys of the landscape of non … of Europeanization. Yet studies have increasingly moved away from considering EU lobbying as a sui generis phenomenon … literature on lobbying and EU studies. This article makes a first step towards such a comparison and points to concepts common in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212261
Cover Image
Lobbying in the European Union: From Sui Generis to a Comparative Perspective
Woll, Cornelia - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2006
This article reviews the literature on lobbying in the European Union. After initial surveys of the landscape of non … of Europeanization. Yet studies have increasingly moved away from considering EU lobbying as a sui generis phenomenon … literature on lobbying and EU studies. This article makes a first step towards such a comparison and points to concepts common in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756658
Cover Image
Lobbying in the European Union: From Sui Generis to a Comparative Perspective.
Woll, Cornelia - Sciences Po - 2006
This article reviews the literature on lobbying in the European Union. After initial surveys of the landscape of non … of Europeanization. Yet studies have increasingly moved away from considering EU lobbying as a sui generis phenomenon … literature on lobbying and EU studies. This article makes a first step towards such a comparison and points to concepts common in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008575371
Cover Image
Personnel decision-making in wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries and in international joint ventures.
Y, Zeira; O, Shenkar - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1986
ILO pub. Working paper, research report on personnel management decision making in foreign owned subsidiarys of multinational enterprises and international joint ventures - discusses legal aspects, the role of absentee top management, host country employers organizations and other interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966364
Cover Image
Basic needs and employment: decentralised planning in India.
Vyas, V. S; Bhatt, A. P; Shah, S. M - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the decentralization of planning in India - discusses objectives, institutional framework, resource allocation, administrative aspects, co-ordination between local level and national planning, etc., includes case studies of rural development and rural employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967103
Cover Image
Political control of government enterprises: Who controls whom?
Rattsø, Jørn; Sørensen, Rune J. - Condorcet Center for Political Economy, Centre de … - 2012
Government enterprises are vulnerable to political intervention and influence of various interest groups. The theoretical literature emphasizes the role multiple and conflicting goals that distorts incentives and accountability. We offer empirical evidence of the importance of the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969026
Cover Image
How is U.S. trade policy towards China determined?
Wang, Xiaosong; Li, Kunwang; Xie, Shenxiang; Hou, Jack - In: China Economic Review 27 (2013) C, pp. 25-36
Utilizing a political economy approach towards trade policy formulation, we examine the case of how the U.S. House voted on the PNTR status for China. Our focus is to analyze the factors affecting the legislators' voting behavior and to deduce the rationale behind these factors. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875311
Cover Image
Corruption, Competition, and Contracts; A Model of Vote Buying
Vardy, Felix J. J.; Morgan, John - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
In the presence of competing interest groups, this paper examines how the form of votebuying contracts affects policy outcomes. We study contracts contingent upon individual votes, policy outcomes, and/or vote shares. Voters either care about their individual votes, or about the policy outcome....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248248
Cover Image
Utilities: deregulated or re-regulated?
Schwarz, Jiří - In: Prague Economic Papers 2003 (2003) 1
This article addresses the restructuration of the utilities sector/industry, a process generally described as deregulation. At the core of deregulation processes, not only in the EU, but also in the US, lies the replacement of old-fashioned forms of state regulation based on ownership control by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256926