Several studies have focused on the development of the market for corporate control, especially in the financial sector. This study focuses on the relationship between features of countries' institutional environment (especially, of political governance institutions) and the intensity of mergers...

The use of performance appraisal is especially controversial in public sector organizations where professionalism norms contribute shaping individual identity and behavior. This study provides a longitudinal analysis of the attitudes of physician executives towards performance appraisal in a...

In 2007-08, the world experienced the greatest financial crisis since 1929, which turned – in the following years – in one of the deepest and most prolonged periods of economic stagnation of modern history. While there were multiple conditions that originated the so-called Great Financial...

The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the 'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case...

Preface -- Financing the public sector -- Taxation : principles, types, and effects -- The design of tax systems -- Taxation and policy objectives -- Sub-national taxation and fiscal federalism -- Issues in international taxation -- Revenue from foreign aid -- User charges, fees, and...