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Determinants of corporate lobbying intensity in the lease standard-setting process

open access: yesRevista de Contabilidad: Spanish Accounting Review, 2016
The highly controversial lease standard-setting project that will replace the standards currently in place, establishes a new approach that includes the recognition of all assets and liabilities associated with lease contracts on the balance sheet ...
Lucía Mellado, Laura Parte
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Politics of Randomness [PDF]

open access: yes
The main drawback of the public-policy contest is that the notion of contest success function, a crucial component of the contest model, does not have micro-foundations and, therefore, the random behavior of the government seems ad-hoc.
Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
wiley   +1 more source

Second‐Order Between‐Supplier Learning

open access: yesJournal of Operations Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Substantial empirical evidence shows that suppliers in emerging economies can enhance their technological capabilities through direct learning from technologically advanced foreign competitors. However, suppliers in emerging markets may struggle to learn directly from knowledge about competitors’ products that are not widely available on the ...
Lisha Liu, Xianwei Shi, Guangzhi Shang
wiley   +1 more source

Bounded Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Uncertainty, Perceptions, and Tensions

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurs experience subjective perceptions of uncertainty and other barriers as they attempt to design their business model. These create boundaries of a cognitive nature that entrepreneurs must navigate. It has been suggested that sustainable entrepreneurship is inherently even more uncertain and complex than traditional entrepreneurship.
Martyna Jurek   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The returns to lobbying [PDF]

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Research by Mirko Draca and colleagues on Washington's 'revolving door' lobbyists gives an indication of the value of political connections in the UK.
Christian Fons-Rosen   +2 more
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Sounds Sweet: Sound Reduplication in Brand Names Enhances Sweet Taste Expectations

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The association between brand name sounds and taste perception is an emerging area of interest in marketing research. This study aims to demonstrate the role of sound‐evoked cuteness in the expectation of sweet taste. Across seven studies (including two supplementary studies), our findings revealed that sound reduplication in brand names is ...
Kosuke Motoki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social and Cultural activities and lobbyism

open access: yesПроблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017
The article discusses the construction of public relations as a cultural construction. Analyzed this form of social and cultural activities as lobbying. Presented by the understand- ing of the modern lobbying in Russia.
V. A. Saprykin
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