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Management Control and Employee Motivation in Local Governments and For‐Profit Firms: A Differentiated Replication Study

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study replicates van der Kolk et al. (2019). “The Impact of Management Control on Employee Motivation and Performance in the Public Sector.”European Accounting Review 28, no. 5: 901–928 to explore the impact of four types of management control (MC) on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation across Japanese local governments and for‐profit ...
Hikaru Goto, Makoto Kuroki
wiley   +1 more source

"It is because we women do not have a voice to be heard" - perceptions of gender-based discrimination and its relevance to health: a qualitative study with women in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Equity Health
Struckmann V   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
wiley   +1 more source

Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
wiley   +1 more source

Public virtue, private ambition—Women owners of private hospitals in early twentieth‐century New Zealand

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract New Zealand's early‐twentieth‐century health service was a two‐tier system of state hospitals supported by an expanding network of over 300 private hospitals, almost exclusively owned by nurses and midwives. This article will show that this environment was created by a legislative framework introduced between 1901 and 1906, requiring nurses ...
Ann‐Marie Quinn
wiley   +1 more source

Gender and Growth Assessment - Nigeria: Bauchi, Cross River, Kano and Lagos State Reports [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Ajala, B.   +5 more
core  

Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural land rental markets in developing countries: Can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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