This study explores the potential to use FIFA and men's World Cup football to advance LGBT rights. Transnational sporting organizations such as the IOC and FIFA operate largely behind closed doors. In secret agreements, the organizations leverage world audience to bend national governments to...

The macroeconomic impact of banks' misconduct led users of financial services to be deterred from using the system to the detriment of market integrity and called upon policy makers and supervisors to turn to “culture” as a means to regain public trust and eventually guarantee the stability...

It is a first stage address to the potential (e-)readers of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and International Journal of Sociology Study (IJSS) in order to invite them to be co-operands within a collective effort to identify the ‘Heritage, Challenge, Perspective' through their own...

Purpose. Recent studies have suggested that the specific characteristics of public organizations may have a bearing on the implementation of organizational change. Public organizations typically operate in an environment characterized by checks and balances, shared power, divergent interests and...

This article aims to contribute to recent debates on research methods in public administration by examining the use of quantitative methods in public administration research. We analyzed 1,605 articles published between 2001-2010 in four leading journals: JPART, PAR, Governance and PA. Results...

This article on public leadership contributes to the literature by (1) focusing on the ‘public' aspect of leadership and (2) developing quantitative scales for measuring four public leadership roles. These roles all refer to the extent to which public leaders actively support their employees...

Performance measurement systems have two contrasting facets. On one hand, they assist managers to take rational actions; on the other, they disclose important information to citizens on their “value for money”. For political reasons the latter may prevail over the former, and this can...

We find robust evidence which indicates that nonprofit donors incorporate third party rating information into their decision to give. Specifically, using a sample of over 3,800 unique nonprofit organizations rated by the three largest charity rating organizations and over 12,000 unrated control...

This study examines the attributes of organizational rules that influence rule following. Rule following fosters organizational effectiveness by aligning individual behaviors with organizational preference. While a range of theoretical explanations has been offered for rule following, the...