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Trust and Management : Explaining Cross-National Differences in Work Autonomy

van Hoorn, André - 2020

We open the black box of what goes on in firms in terms of management of their operations. Work autonomy is a key aspect of firm organization and we test the hypothesis that societal trust affects the level of autonomy that firms grant to their employees. Analysis of up to 189,213 individuals...

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Penalty Zones in International Sustainability Standards : Where Improved Sustainability Doesn’t Pay

Darnall, Nicole; Iatridis, Konstantinos; Kesidou, Effie; … - 2023

Adopting an International Sustainability Standard (ISS) helps firms improve their sustainability performance. It also acts as a credible market “signal” that legitimizes firms’ latent sustainability practices while improving their market value. But how do these signals function when firms...

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Information transmission within federal fiscal architectures : theory and evidence

Gehring, Kai; Kotsogiannēs, Chrēstos; Marchesi, Silvia - 2013

-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes - "decentralization" and "centralization" - when "knowledge … explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision-making controls the degree of decentralization …

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Decentralization and Governance

Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2011

The most important theoretical argument concerning decentralization is that it can improve governance by making … decentralization affects governance, in particular how it might increase political competition, improve public accountability, reduce …

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