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• Uniformity as response to soft law: Evidence from compliance and non-compliance with the Dutch corporate governance code AI翻译
  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 ...
• Capacity-building in global Internet governance: The long-term outcomes of multistakeholderism AI翻译
  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...
• The global institutionalization of microcredit AI翻译
  作者：Aagaard, Peter
  作者单位：Roskilde University
  摘要：This article explains how microcredit as a policy idea has been institutionalized at the transnational level, and what role strategic actors play in the institutional change and governance of microcredit. Special attention is given to three dominant actors, the Grameen Bank, the World Bank, and SKS Microfinance. To explain the emergence of microcredit as a transnational policy idea this article explores the relations between theories of institutional change and Rosenau's concept of spheres of ...
• Can markets be expected to prevent themselves from self-destruction? AI翻译
  作者：Rothstein, Bo
  作者单位：University of Gothenburg
  摘要：Even if competitive markets have shown themselves to be the most efficient organizational form for creating economic efficiency, the question of how they can avoid destructive influence from agents with opportunistic motives remains unresolved. Different institutional approaches have argued that to be efficient, markets need to be embedded in a set of formal and informal institutions. Because such institutions will in the long run make all market agents better off, they are labeled efficient i...