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Regulatory Approaches in the Face of a Pandemic: Assessing the Role of Ideology, Context, and Rule Design in Four Spanish Regions

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Regulatory instruments to manage the COVID‐19 pandemic have been the object of rich scholarly debates, primarily focused on early national responses to the crisis. We investigate variation in sub‐national regulatory approaches when a crisis is normalized, its association with competing political ideas about the health‐economy trade‐off and the
Salvador Parrado   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
wiley   +1 more source

Family Management, Family Ownership and Downsizing: Evidence from S&P 500 Firms [PDF]

open access: yes
Little is known about the relationship between family firms and their employees. This paper aims to close this gap. We distinguish between family management and family ownership as two dimensions of family firms and analyze their respective influence on ...
Jörn Hendrich Block
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Agency, Interrupted: Does Organizational Restructuring Improve Managerial Gender Parity? Testing a Disruption Hypothesis

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Administrative restructuring is an organizational phenomenon suggested to improve under‐represented groups' managerial representation by disrupting networks and institutions. However, extant tests of a ‘disruption hypothesis’ are collectively inconclusive. We elaborate and test it with a qualitative‐to‐quantitative study of local health agency
Rebecca A. E. Kirley, Carlotta Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

Unravelling Downsizing – What do we know about the Phenomenon? [PDF]

open access: yes
This downsizing article represents a succinct review of the scholarly work of researchers studying the multifaceted downsizing phenomenon over the past 30 years. Since Cascio’s (1993) article “Downsizing: What do we know?
Franco GANDOLFI
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Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances research on policy accumulation by analyzing its political consequences in the French housing sector. It argues that, in the context of decentralization reforms, the accumulation of policy instruments has undermined national steering capacities and intensified territorial inequalities.
Francesco Findeisen, Patrick Le Galès
wiley   +1 more source

Downsizing implementation and financial performance [PDF]

open access: yes
In the present study we explore the relationship between downsizing decisions and corporate financial performance after top management has decided to downsize.
Fernando Munoz-Bullon   +1 more
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Employer Downsizing and Older Workers' Health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We estimate the effects of employer downsizing on older workers' health outcomes using different approaches to control for endogeneity and sample selection.
Gutierrez, Italo A.   +1 more
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How scientists can make the case for international cooperation in an age of diplomatic retrenchment

open access: yes
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
James A. Dubovsky   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Everything Is Just Done Away With Now”: Contentious Practices of Scalar Brokerage Motivated by Narratives of Welfare Nostalgia in Postcolonial Rotterdam

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 108-119, March 2026.
ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
wiley   +1 more source

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