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Formal Control, Social Control and Guanxi in IT Outsourcing: A Study in Chinese Firms

open access: closed, 2017
Despite the fast growing trend, it is reported that IT outsourcing in China is fraught with high rates of failure. The buyers of IT outsourcing services in China face difficulties in selecting service providers, negotiating managing contracts, and maintain good relationship due to a lack of systematic guidelines on which governance mechanism to deploy ...
Wentao Jiang
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System Design and Social Reality: Formal and Informal Aspects of Administrative Control

open access: closedPersonnel Review, 1976
When computers were first used in work organizations they were seen principally as devices able to perform simple and limited functions. In consequence they were used to automate routine tasks which had previously been done manually — producing bills, payrolls etc — and they appeared in organizations primarily concerned with large‐scale information ...
Rolf Höyer
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Does Control Matter? Exploring the Effects of Formal Control and Social Control on Knowledge Transfer in Service Supply Chain

open access: closed, 2014
This paper presents the effect of control on knowledge transfer in service supply chain with an empirical data from China Mobile. Formal control and Social control are mechanisms usually taken to promote knowledge transfer by buyer in service supply chain.
Adejiang Dawuti
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"Formal Control, Social Networks and CSR: A Study of the Buyer-Supplier Relationship Context"

open access: closedAcademy of Management Proceedings, 2015
Despite wide recognition that a downstream buyer should extend its responsibility to ensure its upstream supplier behaves in a socially responsible way, how the buyer can do so remains in question....
Wenqian Li, Yi Liu, Yonghai Liao
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INFORMAL AND FORMAL CONTROL OF SOCIAL DEVIANCE THROUGH EDUCATION

open access: closedSGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference EXPO Proceedings, 2014
Adrian Gorun
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Formal and Informal Social Control of Family Violence

2022
Abstract When intimate partner violence (IPV) is deterred or completely avoided, children benefit by living in a more stable, secure familial environment free from violence. This chapter reviews the research literature, with a particular focus on the relationship between social control and IPV, organizing the literature on both formal ...
Clifton R. Emery, Alhassan Abdullah
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Racial Disparity in Formal Social Control

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2008
Prior research on racial disparities in arrest rates has been limited by an almost exclusive focus on two explanatory models, an inattention to the mediating processes identified in leading theories, and a relative neglect of nonindex crimes, for which police discretion is greater.
Graham C. Ousey, Matthew R. Lee
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Formal and Informal Social Controls of Employee Deviance

The Sociological Quarterly, 1982
Using the phenomenon of deviance by employees against the rules of the formal work organization as the behavior of interest, the differential saliences of both formal (i.e., management) and informa...
Richard C. Hollinger, John P. Clark
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Understanding and Controlling Hot Spots of Crime: The Importance of Formal and Informal Social Controls

Prevention Science, 2013
Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention programs that address opportunity or structural factors related to crime are usually delivered to entire cities, sections of cities or to specific neighborhoods, but our results indicate geographically targeting these programs to specific street segments may increase their efficacy. We link crime incidents to
David, Weisburd   +2 more
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