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A comprehensive evaluation framework on the economic performance of state-owned enterprises

Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Kim, Chul Ju; … - 2019

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play a key role in the economy of many countries. They are usually thought to be in charge of increasing social welfare. At the same time, their relatively low performance poses several problems, including slowing down economic growth. This effect is especially...

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Multiple futures for society, research, and innovation in the European Union: Jumping ahead to 2038

Daimer, Stephanie; Havas, Attila; Cuhls, Kerstin; … - 2021

We contribute to the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) literature in two ways: (i) we consider how societal aspects are taken into account in research and innovation activities in four fundamentally different futures, as opposed to analysing current practices; and (ii) put the emphasis...

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No Countries for Old Technology Assessment? Sketching the Efforts and Opportunities to Establish Parliamentary TA in Spain and Portugal

Böhle, Knud; Moniz, António - In: Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis 24 (2015) 1, pp. 29-44

If the question is whether there is a parliamentary technology assessment (PTA) unit in Portugal or Spain, the clear answer is that there is still no such unit at the central state level at the present time, neither in Portugal nor in Spain. The question then has to be modified addressing...

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No countries for old technology assessment? : sketching the efforts and opportunities to establish parliamentary TA in Spain and Portugal

Böhle, Knud; Moniz, A. Brandão - 2015

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Why 'Best Practice' Corporate Governance Can Fail

Turnbull, Shann - 2011

This paper critiques corporate governance practices widely promoted as being “best” for Publicly Traded Corporations (PTCs). The criteria used to identify good governance are those that minimize the involvement of Regulators or Law Makers with PTCs. The different drivers of corporate...

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Placeholders : Engaging the Hayekian Critique of Financial Regulation

Riles, Annelise - 2011

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China’s Increasing Policy Shift Towards More Sustainable Growth

Prud'homme, Dan - 2014

Many have increasingly questioned if and how Chinese policy has evolved or will evolve to ensure that the country's development is not only focused on immediate economic growth, but also economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. This paper addresses this question by tracing key...

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The Market-Promoting and Market-Preserving Role of Social Trust in Reforms of Policies and Institutions

Berggren, Niclas - 2017

Social trust has been identified as a catalyst for reforms. We take the literature further in two ways. First, we make … a fine-grained analysis of mechanisms through which social trust enables liberalizing reforms – by strengthening the … government, minority government and legislature-seat instability). Second, we define reforms as distinct changes in the quality …

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Land Leases Without Landlords

Turnbull, Shann - 2004

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Economic Crises and Globalisation as Drivers of Pension Privatisation : An Empirical Analysis

Leibrecht, Markus - 2017

Pension systems are core institutional arrangements that are expected to be stable and reliable over consecutive generations. Nevertheless, reforms in pension provision intensified over the past decades, with several countries opting for privatisation of their pension system. We ask which...

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