Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
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Polycentric Development to Combat Regional Disparities? the Relation Between Polycentricity and Regional Disparities in European Countries [PDF]
Trends in regional disparities have been a major issue in regional science for many decades and knowledge of ways to overcome such disparities has great importance for regional policy-making. Strong initial differences between regions affect the capacity
Evert Meijers, Krister Sandberg
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Reconsidering Cohesion Policy : the Contested debate on Territorial Cohesion [PDF]
, 2009 The incorporation of territorial cohesion as a regional policy objective has focused attention on the potential role of territorial cooperation in pursuing this goal.
Bachtler, John +2 more
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Analysis of Romanian Polycentricity Based on Functional Urban Areas [PDF]
Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 2020 Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrișor +3 more
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The Cost of Convenience: A Hedonic Approach to Travel Time Valuation and Cost‐Benefit Analysis
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel revealed‐preference approach to estimating the value of travel time (VTT) and calculating consumer surplus for the economic evaluation of transport infrastructure. Departing from traditional stated‐preference models, we derive time valuations by linking residential rental transactions in Greater Sydney to employment
Isaac Mann, David M. Levinson
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The Mega-City-Region of Munich: A Kingdom of Its Own Or a Space of Inter-Connected Flows? [PDF]
In a world of continuing globalization mega-city regions (MCR) are of increasing importance. MCR are defined by a high concentration of regulation, innovation and gateway functions.
Alain Thierstein, Viktor Goebel
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Plant Biology, EarlyView.Cytogenetic quantification of KNL1‐labelled kinetochores in Ornithogalum kochii reveals a significant positive scaling relationship between chromosome size and kinetochore size, demonstrating that chromosome–kinetochore scaling operates even across moderate intra‐karyotype size variation.
K. Panda, M. Hroneš, F. Zedek
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Is Pennine England becoming more Polycentric or more Centripetal? an analysis of commuting flows in a transforming industrial region, 1981-2001 [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines census-derived commuting data for the world’s earliest major urbanindustrial region, now home to 10 million people. Owing its origins to water power from the Pennine rivers, this region now comprises many closely-spaced cities and ...
Champion, Tony, Coombes, Mike
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The influence of urban structure on commuting: an analysis for the main metropolitan systems in Spain [PDF]
, 2017 It is widely recognised that urban mobility is responsible for the generation of an important proportion greenhouse gasses produced by households, at the time that it has important social and economic implications for urban sustainability.
Marmolejo Duarte, Carlos Ramiro +1 more
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The Inclusion Trade‐Off: Comparing the Design and Functionality of Collaborative Governance Forums
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental challenges require collaboration across jurisdictions, often through forums or intermediary spaces for repeated interaction. A persistent forum design question concerns inclusion criteria, or which actors should be included.
Adam Wiechman +3 more
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