of employment in public organizations, for both bureaucrats and frontline providers. Second, patronage is an important …

hires are relatively more qualified. Our results suggest a potential upside to patronage as campaign connections create new …

economic roots of the shift from patronage to a freelance market. He describes the eighteenth-century cultural "arms race …

This study explores the inter-relationships among atmosphere, crowding, and perceived service to patronage intention … mediating element between business atmosphere and patronage. Crowding and service perceptions have positive direct effects on … patronage, and atmosphere has direct negative effects on patronage. In lower consumption night markets, perceived service is the …

This essay examines the economics of patronage and the roles of asymmetric information and reputation in the early … functional response to heightened asymmetric information problems posed for the Renaissance system of court-patronage of the arts … court patronage system of late Renaissance Europe, within which the new natural philosophers found their support, points to …

This essay examines the economics of patronage in the production of knowledge and its influence upon the historical … court-patronage of the arts and sciences; pre-existing informational asymmetries had been exacerbated by the claims of … attracted the patronage of rival absolutist States of Western Europe during the latter part of the seventeenth century. The …