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The Réseau Express Métropolitain as an Evolution of the Public‐Private Partnership

Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This research note explores the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) as an exploratory case of partnership for public infrastructure procurement. It seeks to determine whether the REM represents an evolution of the P3 model that has significance for public governance, particularly as it relates to the delivery of public infrastructure. Our study
Michael A. O'Neill, Joseph Gubbels, Stacie Trinh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Efficient Mechanism for Downsizing the Public Sector.

We study the efficient mechanism for downsizing the public sector focusing on adverse selection in productive efficiency. Each agent is assumed to have two type-dependent reservation utilities: the status quo utility in the public sector before ...
Jeon, D.-S., Laffont, J.-J.
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Exit dynamics from organic certification in Quebec

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, EarlyView.
Abstract In Quebec, organic‐certification exits remained persistently high at 5% –7% annually over 2021–2025, while entries fell sharply from 10.8% to 3.4%. By 2025, exits exceeded entries for the first time, contracting the certified stock and reversing a decade of expansion.
Komla Avoumatsodo, Moustapha Thiam
wiley   +1 more source

How Reelection Pressure Shapes Directors' Commitment to Stakeholders: Evidence From Majority Voting Legislation

Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Director reelection pressure strengthens directors' accountability to shareholders, yet its implications for stakeholder‐oriented engagement, such as corporate sustainability, remain theoretically ambiguous and empirically underexplored.
Zhe Li, Bo Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Public Sector Restructuring: Public Sector Downsizing and Redeployment Programs in Central and Eastern Europe

The study starts with a review of the given task, defines the region, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and presents the countries selected for the case studies, Hungary, Estonia, and Eastern Germany.
Wolfgang Drechsler
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Third sector accounting and accountability in Australia: anything but a level playing field [PDF]

, 2014
This research report seeks to understand why some Australian not-for-profit organisations make voluntary financial disclosures beyond their basic statutory obligations. Introduction This paper surveys previous work on voluntary information disclosures
Gabriel Donleavy, Donleavy, Gabriel, Ghoorah, Ushi (R18474), Ushi Ghoorah-Hurrychurn   +3 more
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A series of (un)fortunate events: Commercial bank interest rates and deposit reallocation during the Great Depression in the Netherlands

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the global economic crisis of 1929–33, deposits in the Dutch commercial banking sector sharply declined as funds shifted to the government‐guaranteed Post Office Savings Bank and other savings institutions. Unlike earlier studies for neighbouring countries, we demonstrate that this shift was driven less by a flight to safety and more by
Ruben Peeters, Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn, John D. Turner, Clive B. Walker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Concurrent uncertainties and investments: Offset effect of Brexit and COVID‐19 on SME growth

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the impact of uncertainty driven by dual crises, regulatory/institutional uncertainty (illustrated by Brexit) and market/operational uncertainty (illustrated by the COVID‐19 pandemic), on the growth trajectories of SMEs. Using Real Options Theory as a guiding framework, hypotheses are developed to examine how investment
Karolis Matikonis, Byron Graham
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Tokenism in Corporate Boardrooms in Europe

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the tension between the diversity spillover and tokenism hypotheses using a novel and extensive dataset of nearly 6 million private corporations across 29 European countries from 1986 to 2020. The diversity spillover hypothesis suggests that appointing women to supervisory roles facilitates greater female representation in executive
Hubert Drążkowski, Joanna Tyrowicz
wiley   +1 more source