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Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A multi‐level process perspective on refugee workplace integration

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Prior research has suggested the need for complementary efforts by multiple stakeholders (government, NGOs, employers) to support workplace integration for refugees, but has paid less attention to how such programs are developed and enacted in specific settings, and how they then influence refugees' workplace integration trajectories.
Vedran Omanović, Ann Langley
wiley   +1 more source

Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms time defined‐benefit (DB) plan freezes after CEO turnovers to protect CEO retirement benefits from cost cuts affecting the wider workforce. We document a significant increase in voluntary CEO turnovers just before the freeze, without notable post‐freeze changes.
Zacharias Petrou, Adamos Vlittis
wiley   +1 more source

Linkage Between Electoral Cycle and the Discouragement of African Firms in the Credit Market

open access: yesInternational Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the linkage between the electoral cycle and the discouragement of SMEs in the credit market of 14 African countries. It focuses on 12,145 firms over the period 2006–2020. The results obtained from Probit estimates show elections are negatively linked with the discouragement of firms in the credit market.
Cherif Abdramane, Simplice A. Asongu
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Role of Ideology and Sectoral Power for Trade Unions' Social Partnership Choices in Liberal Market Economies

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While scholars have often debated the outcomes of partnership strategy, they have rarely studied the conditions in which trade unions opt to pursue partnerships, especially social partnerships in liberal market economies (‘LMEs’). By comparing five trade unions' social partnership responses in the US‐American and English healthcare systems ...
Nick Krachler
wiley   +1 more source

A Global Voting Advice Application for the US Election Aimed at Foreign Audiences. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Data
Etienne TW   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From External Governance to Energy Diplomacy: The European Pursuit of Green Hydrogen

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union (EU) and its Member States are faced with the double imperative of ensuring energy security whilst reaching decarbonisation goals. A number of authors have suggested that we are observing a geopolitical Commission that is shifting to more active ‘energy diplomacy’, as opposed to its
Silvia Weko, Rainer Quitzow
wiley   +1 more source

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