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Previous studies have shown that agencification tends to undermine political control within a government portfolio. However, doubts have been raised as regards the robustness of these findings. In this paper we document that agency officials pay significantly less attention to signals from...
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Civilsamhällets organisationer växer i samhället. Med det växer också det mediala intresset för dessa organisationer. Hur ser granskningen av ideella organisationer ut? Och hur påverkas dessa organisationer ur ett organisationsperspektiv av att få mycket kritisk uppmärksamhet i...
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Relations between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and companies have been the subject of a sharply increasing amount of publications in recent years within academic business journals. In this article, we critically assess this fast-developing body of literature, which we treat as forming a...
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The immediate postwar in Europe was characterised by collective amnesia concerning where Jews had lived prior to the Holocaust. By the 1970s and mid-1980s, there was a revival of interest in residential areas, synagogues and cemeteries connected with a Jewish past, right throughout Europe,...
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The Dispute Settlement System (DSS) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is a mechanism to settle international trade …
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Discourse theorists such as Habermas tend to disregard the communicative character and discoursive power of market processes and at the same time overrate the ability of political deliberation to discover and implement social problem solutions. Mainstream economists have little to contribute to...
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and organisational effects of an organisation accounting upon absent accounting artefacts, i.e. accounting without … organisation by focusing on what accounting does or does not do within an organisation. In particular, the paper acknowledges the … organisational discourses, as it illustrates how the absence of accounting centralises power within the organisation. Design …
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The paper contrasts two interpretations of the role of agreement in politics, a social contract notion and a dialogue notion. It is argued that the two notions can be viewed as complementing each other if one explicitly separates two components in human choice that in rational choice theory are...
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In the last ten years, economic issues related to currency policy have become the major ongoing dispute between China and the U.S. Especially the U.S. Congress is stridently demanding a tougher policy to avert the negative consequences for the U.S. economy of “unfair” Chinese policies in the...
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In relativ kurzer Zeit haben Open Source-Projekte als selbst organisierte, informale (Arbeits-)Netzwerke freiwillig Arbeitender, die durch eine rechtlich spezifische Lizenz ein „oeffentliches Gut“ erstellen, neben kommerzieller Software eine hohe Bedeutung erlangt. In dieser Arbeit wird die...
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