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Bad NGOs? Competition in the Market for Donations and Workers' Misconduct
ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate how competition among NGOs to attract donations shapes the incentives that NGOs provide to their employees. NGOs hire workers to undertake development projects, which are horizontally and vertically differentiated.
Nadia Burani, Ester Manna
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How the Threat of Knowledge Loss Drives Firms’ R&D Dynamism: A Threat Rigidity Perspective
Abstract Drawing on threat rigidity theory, this paper argues that the threat of knowledge loss gives rise to a threat rigidity effect in firms’ R&D function, that is, reduces their R&D dynamism. It further argues that the dampening of R&D dynamism is greater for firms more vulnerable to the threat of knowledge loss due to facing greater product market
Aman Asija, Dimo Ringov
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe +2 more
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“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories
ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
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IMF Conditionality on Corruption: The Politics of Good Governance
ABSTRACT We offer a systematic analysis of IMF loan conditionality on corruption and argue that the Fund's pursuit of anti‐corruption measures is tempered by two political costs. First, because corruption is politically sensitive, the IMF risks destabilizing recipient governments and provoking crises.
Merih Angin +3 more
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Justice-Oriented Law Enforcement Against Notarial Embezzlement of Entrusted Investment Funds
This study aims to analyze law enforcement against Notaries who commit embezzlement of entrusted investment funds and to formulate a justice-oriented enforcement model.
Furi Handayani +1 more
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Does Corruption Increase Inequality? Evidence From a European Fact‐Based Assessment
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether government favoritism in public procurement generates negative social costs, even within redistributive institutional frameworks such as the European Union. Rather than relying on perception‐based corruption indicators, we employ an objective proxy of corruption risk—the share of awarded public contracts which ...
Iva Parvanova, Alina Mungiu‐Pippidi
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Abstract Collaboration has become important at all stages of research careers. In data‐intensive research fields such as wind energy, many PhD fellows are socialized to such collaboration in networks that train a cohort of PhD fellows. Based on interviews with 23 PhD fellows in four wind‐energy training networks, we investigate their expectations and ...
Grischa Fraumann +3 more
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The construction market in Ukraine plays a significant role in the country's economic development, infrastructure growth, and employment generation. However, it remains one of the sectors most vulnerable to violations of economic legislation and criminal
I. Kramarenko
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Welcome to the Jungle: An Examination of the Making of Science Standards
ABSTRACT Nearly 50 million public school students in the United States are required to learn the content prescribed by state‐mandated science standards. Although much is known about the implementation of science standards and teachers' perceptions of them, the development process of these standards remains unclear.
Allison M. Esparza, Joanne K. Olson
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