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The 1980s has been viewed as a period of considerable change in industrial relations. The transformation of the global market and new style management practices have raised important questions regarding the extent and character of continuities and discontinuities. Much emphasis has been placed...
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pattern. From this pattern the paradigm of a new decentralization can be recognized. A more exact analysis of the structural …
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Purpose Financial stress features frequently as an explanatory factor in research into decisions concerning the contracting out, or decentralisation, of local public services, though existing empirical studies are not unanimous in their conclusions. The understanding of how financial crises...
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various factors – (de)centralization, fit, CSR–human resources synergies, transformational leadership and pride – have on a …
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control of corruption and to effective democracy, and recognising that the cost of transparency is diminished confidentiality … and privacy. Applies this to the retrieval of the proceeds of corruption, using a case study in Italy to show how a wife …’s complaint about divorce compensation led to the uncovering of corruption involving many politicians. Discusses how codes of …
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Reviews the present role of corruption in English law, pointing out that there is actually no offence of corruption …, nor of fraud, although there is a draft bill to establish the general offence of fraud; the link of corruption with bribes …, provide a new definition and draft a general offence of corruption. Outlines what this new concept of corruption would be: the …
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boundaries of corruption: a structural perspective, a social‐normative perspective, and an organizational‐normative perspective …. Findings – The paper finds that corruption should be considered not only as a social construct, a cultural phenomenon (from a … corruption serves both to sway people away from their moral duties and to favour self‐interest, we cannot look at corruption as …
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the modern notion of corruption from Enlightenment to post-modernity. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyzed to … what extent the classical notion of corruption (Plato, Aristotle and Cicero) still influenced the way philosophers … perceived the phenomenon of corruption during the Enlightenment (1625-1832), the transition period (1833-1900) and the post …
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This paper considers the distributional dynamics of a well‐known corruption index. Specifically, we are interested in … evaluating whether corruption is best characterized as multimodal (i.e. pointing to clusters of countries with persistently … different levels of corruption) and whether there have been significant changes (i.e. convergence or divergence) in the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that the analysis of corruption must distinguish between corruption in … organizations where this kind of behaviour is widespread and corruption in organizations where it is rare, and must also distinguish … between corruption as the outcome of an economic cost-benefit analysis and corruption induced by social-psychological factors …
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