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Disentangling contract and law: Legal specificity and contractual governance in public–private partnerships

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This study examines how legal design shapes contractual governance in public–private partnership (PPP). We argue that PPP‐specific laws do not simply strengthen institutional safeguards; by varying in detail, they also alter the flexibility available for project‐level contracting.
Mohammad Hosseini, Bertrand V. Quelin
wiley   +1 more source

Information processing, mutual understanding, and organization design in healthcare

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Prior research predicts that information technology (IT) decentralizes decisions by increasing access to information relevant for decision‐making. Yet this view underestimates the coordination challenges and communication costs created by interdependent work.
John Joseph   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Takes High‐Earning CTE Pathways?

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wage gaps across demographic groups in the U.S. labor market are well documented. A key question is the degree to which group‐based sorting into high‐ versus low‐paying occupations reflects underlying preferences, versus structural barriers or prior educational experiences.
Celeste K. Carruthers   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Allais Paradox and Upside/Downside Risk Preference: An Experimental Analysis With Probability Weighting and Chernoff Faces

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Allais Paradox is often attributed to the strong attraction of a certain option that avoids a downside risk, i.e., a small chance of a low payoff. In contrast, there is clear evidence from laboratory and field data that people are attracted to the upside risk of obtaining a relatively high payoff.
Irene Comeig, Charles Holt
wiley   +1 more source

Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploration of key stakeholder views and experience of specialist schools' food: a qualitative study. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
McSweeney L   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The “We” and “Me” of Identity in Hazardous Industry Organizations: Face Work Tactics Among Practicing Engineers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this paper, we use Goffman's notion of “face work” to examine how pipeline engineers perform and present their working selves as competent experts. Our analysis identifies various faces and face work tactics, including a focus on professional judgment, actively selling one's expertise relative to others, protective self‐deprecatory strategies, and ...
Sarah Maslen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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