Corrupt Bureaucracy and Growth [PDF]
In this paper, we analyze implications of corruption on growth. We extend existing growth models by incorporating ubiquitous corruption as a by-product of the public sector. Corruption affects both taxation and public good provision, and therefore causes
Djumashev, Ratbek
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Review: "Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork, Zone Books, 2012" and "Lisa Gitelman, Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, Duke University Press, 2014" (joint review) [PDF]
, 2014 Kafka delves into the nature of paper as enabling agent of bureaucracy – i.e. paperwork – Gitelman’s focus is on “documents” and how they were shaped by print and are now transformed by the ...
von Lunen, Alexander
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Under the current global institutional endorsement for corporate sustainability, understanding if companies are effectively improving their ESG performance represents a key topic. Therefore, this research examines whether and how mandatory sustainability reporting affects companies' environmental and social performance. The study also explores
Gianluca Vitale +3 more
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, 2019 This chapter argues that discretion should be seen not only as an inevitable but also a potentially highly beneficial feature of bureaucratic organization. Taking a Weberian view of bureaucracy, we make two case-based arguments. First, we suggest that discretion is an invaluable characteristic of administrative office-holding to such an extent that ...
Pedersen, Kirstine Zinck, du Gay, Paul
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Financial Control of a Competitive Economy without Randomness [PDF]
The monetary and fiscal control of a simple economy without outside randomness is studied here from the micro-economic basis of a strategic market game. The government's bureaucracy is treated as a public good that provides services at a cost.
Ioannis Karatzas +2 more
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CAREER MANAGEMENT IN THE MINISTRY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AND THE BUREAUCRATIC STATE APPARATUS [PDF]
, 2016 Career management is one part discussion of human resources management. Human resources reform is a crucial element for the effectiveness of the performance of the bureaucracy.
Irawan, Irawan +3 more
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Beyond Values: Business Orientation as a Driver of Small Business Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small businesses differ from larger corporations in their approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR) due to their unique reliance on the personal values of owner/managers. This study employs an abductive research methodology to explore the depth and relative influence of these personal values, in contrast to business motivations, on ...
Barbara Tomasella, Elaine Conway
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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness [PDF]
Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies ...
Brown, J. David +2 more
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Beyond Weber: Conceptualizing an Alternative Ideal-Type of Bureaucracy in Developing Contexts
, 2016 The study of public administration in developing countries needs to look beyond the Weberian model as the only ideal-type of bureaucracy. When we assume that there exists only one gold standard of public administration, all other organizational forms ...
Yuen Yuen Ang
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Bureaucracy and Morality: An Organizational Perspective on a Moral Crusade [PDF]
, 1968 Donald T. Dickson
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