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CORRUPTION, FRAUD AND INTERNAL CONTROL [PDF]
The economic crunch created a specific context for activity and profitability failing. The corruption is more and more common in our days. In the same time, the amount of money lost by businesses and the public sector to larger frauds increased last year
IONESCU, Luminiţa
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Disinformation has become a contentious issue within the European Union (EU) and in transatlantic relations, raising fundamental questions about how democratic societies should regulate online content. This article investigates how competing democratic visions shape European Parliamentary debates on the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Linus Wahlberg, Sara Wissén
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The Political Economy of Institutions and Corruption in American States. [PDF]
Theoretically, this paper draws on political agency theory to formulate hypotheses. Empirically, it shows that political institutions have a role in explaining the prevalence of political corruption in American states. In the states, a set of democracies
James E. Alt, David Dreyer Lassen
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Economic policy uncertainty and international corporate leasing
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the corporate lease decision using an international sample of 19 countries. The use of operating leases increases when EPU is heightened. The documented leasing increase is more pronounced for financially constrained firms, firms facing greater operating volatility, or those that ...
Goutham Abotula +2 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
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Misdeeds in the US higher education: Illegality versus corruption
Corruption in higher education has long been neglected as an area of research in the US. The processes of decentralization, commoditization, and privatization in higher education rise questions of accountability, transparency, quality, and access.
Osipian, Ararat
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Corruption and Reform: An Introduction [PDF]
The United States today, according to most studies, is among the least corrupt nations in the world. But America's past was checkered with political scandal and widespread corruption that would not seem unusual compared with the most corrupt developing ...
Edward L. Glaeser, Claudia Goldin
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Settler Sociology: Eugenic Responses to Imperial Crises in the 20th Century
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the twentieth century, academic concerns about changes in the racial demographics of the United States emanated from the potential crisis of settler colonial decline. In their references to previous empires, stories of contact between people groups, and changes in demographics, settler scholars worked to provide solutions to the ever ...
Heidi Nicholls
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Corruption, anti-corruption, and corporate governance in China
In this review, we investigate various aspects of corruption in China, emphasizing its theoretical foundations, different forms, and far-reaching consequences.
Fu, X, Zhang, Z
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
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