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作者：Hansson, Lisa; Holmgren, Johan
作者单位：VTI; Linkoping University
摘要：Using private contractors through procurement is common inmost public sector areas. Despite the benefits of procurement, officials are sometimes tempted to circumvent procurement regulations. The aim of this article is to examine the strategies used by local governmental decisionmakers to bypass procurement regulations and to analyze the rationality underlying these officials' actions. Interviews, court documents, municipal documents, and newspaper articles describing the actions of Swedish mu...
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作者：van Erp, Judith
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：Enforcement agencies increasingly disclose or name and shame corporate offenders. This article uses responsive regulation as a framework for an empirical study of the impact of non-anonymous publication of sanctions in the Dutch financial market. These publications are characterized as naming without shaming, because they are used for technical guidance rather than with the intention to shame. The findings show that naming offenders functions as a general deterrent in the market for financial ...
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作者：Piore, Michael J.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This article extends the concept of street-level bureaucracy to address the problem of the inflexibility and rigidity of governmental rules and regulations, a problem at the heart of the standard economic argument against an active government role in the management of the economy. In so doing, it seeks to create a conceptual bridge over which a range of social science disciplines can be drawn into the debate about public sector management and thereby expand the repertoire of policy tools. The ...
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作者：Hooghiemstra, Reggy; van Ees, Hans
作者单位：University of Groningen
摘要：The objective of the paper is to examine how firms have dealt with the trade-off between flexibility and uncertainty that is characteristic for the decision-making of firms in coping with self-regulatory initiatives in general and the comply-or-explain principle in corporate governance in particular. Using unique data for 126 listed Dutch firms, we find that firms respond to this self-regulatory initiative by largely complying with the code recommendation, possibly out of fear that the firm's ...
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作者：Hutchens, Anna
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：The concept of power in political governance has traditionally focused on domination and the preservation of the status quo. In an economic context, institutional and organizational studies have expressed growing interest in the dynamics of agency and institutional change, captured in the concept of institutional entrepreneurship. In the context of global free trade, the Fair Trade movement's experience shows that ongoing institutional entrepreneurship is important for entrepreneurs to transce...
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作者：Canales, Rodrigo
作者单位：Yale University
摘要：This article explores how loan officers enact and adapt organizational policies within microfinance institutions. Some loan officers frequently bend or choose not to enforce written rules in an effort to better address client needs, while others enforce the rules strictly. These differences in enforcement styles are analyzed to explore the structural characteristics that generate and sustain rule-bending behavior. In microfinance, the pressures to standardize and automate lending decisions cha...
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作者：van Zwanenberg, Patrick; Ely, Adrian; Smith, Adrian; Chen Chuanbo; Ding Shijun; Fazio, Maria-Eugenia; Goldberg, Laura
作者单位：University of Sussex; University of Sussex; Renmin University of China; Zhongnan University of Economics & Law
摘要：The international harmonization of technology-related regulations seeks certain norms across diverse contexts. Harmonization efforts are based primarily on the promulgation of state-centered command and control forms of regulation, though they may also be accompanied by the diffusion of more plural approaches that are decentered from the state. We contrast the ways in which the proper use of transgenic cotton seed technologies is understood in harmonizing regulations with the way this technolo...
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作者：Gilad, Sharon
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：This article analyzes the institutionalization of process-oriented regulation, namely: regulatory institutions that allow firms to adapt regulation to their individual circumstances, while holding them to account for the adequacy and efficacy of their internal compliance systems. The article's main focus is on the strategies sought by compliance professionals to attain managers' receptiveness to regulatory expectations. It analyzes British financial firms' responses to a process-oriented regul...
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作者：Coslovsky, Salo V.
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Recent research on regulatory enforcement has been showing that the best way to enforce protective regulations is to thoroughly adapt the remedy to the problem at hand. Unfortunately, this is far from easy, as organizations and work environments all too often encourage street-level bureaucrats to standardize and simplify their practices. In an attempt to bridge this gap, many scholars equate responsiveness to preprogrammed escalation. This article analyzes how the Brazilian Ministerio Publico ...
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作者：Antonova, Slavka
作者单位：University of North Dakota Grand Forks
摘要：Capacity building is a catch phrase from the UN development discourse. In recent years, it has entered the global Internet governance (IG) arena. At World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS 2003), capacity building was identified as a key public policy issue. It is proposed in this study that capacity building be defined in a different manner as the principal outcome of the experimental multistakeholder (MSH) process in global IG. The open and inclusive process of stakeholder deliberation...
