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ABSTRACT Small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) face significant institutional barriers when expanding across borders, including regulatory constraints, financial accessibility issues, and market entry challenges. Institutional theory provides a useful framework for understanding how external regulative, normative, and cognitive institutional forces
Sharmin Nahar, Muntasir Alam
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Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research
ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings +3 more
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This paper seeks to assess public knowledge on the role and effectiveness of the different institutions charged to stamp out corruption in Cameroon. It begins with a general introduction to the phenomenon of corruption; followed by a background to the fight against corruption in Cameroon; an explanation of the methodology utilised in carrying out the ...
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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
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Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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LEGAL REGULATION OF ECONOMIC OFFENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESSES IN UKRAINE
The article is devoted to the study of legal regulation of economic offences in Ukraine in the context of European integration processes. In the context of globalisation and Ukraine's active integration into the European Union, the issues of ensuring ...
Andrii Borovyk +2 more
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Firm corruption in the presence of an auditor [PDF]
This paper develops a framework to explore firm corruption taking account of interaction with an auditor. The basic idea is that an auditor can provide auditing and other (consultancy) services.
Dietrich, M., McHardy, J., Sharma, A.
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Anti-Corruption Agencies and Eradication of Corruption in Nigeria
Azeez, Ademola I +1 more
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Office of Anticorruption and Integrity: Annual Report 2013 [PDF]
[Excerpt] Corruption is not single-celled. It does not move in just one direction and has many causes and symptoms. It has no single cure and will continue to grow and fester unless addressed from multiple fronts.
Asian Development Bank
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