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Varieties of Democracy Aid Approaches: The Role of Donors' Domestic Ideology

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the end of the Cold War, DAC donors increased their efforts of democracy promotion in developing countries. Among other instruments, DAC donors increasingly use democracy aid to improve democracy abroad. However, DAC donors differ in their allocation and delivery strategy of democracy aid.
Jean‐Baptiste Puginier
wiley   +1 more source

From Fiji to Fallujah: The war on Iraq and the privatisation of Pacific security

Pacific Journalism Review, 2006
Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, private security companies from the United Kingdom and United States have been seeking personnel for their operations in the Middle East, and many hundreds of Fijians have signed up.
Nic Maclellan
doaj   +1 more source

When Being Stuck in Your Career Has Implications Beyond Your Career: Spillover and Crossover Effects of Career Plateaus

Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many employees experience a career plateau (CP) with potentially negative consequences. Previous research has established the effects of CPs on well‐being, whereas the potential boundary conditions of these effects and the resulting crossover effects for life partners have been largely neglected.
Rebekka S. Steiner, Anja M. Ghetta, Andreas Hirschi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Specific aspects of private security in high-risk zone [PDF]

Војно дело, 2015
Rapid commercialization of security services in high-risk zones and engaging security and private military companies has put private security in high-risk zones in the focus of interest.
Srdanović Srđan
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Failure in Motion: A Framework for Capability Erosion and Institutional Dysfunction

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on the literature on capability erosion and institutional dysfunction (ID), this study develops a conceptual framework that sheds new light on how the interaction between capability erosion and ID creates conditions for business failure across borders. By articulating two dimensions of heterogeneous capability and resource erosion (i.e.
Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah, Ahmed Adel Tantawy   +1 more
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Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies in National and International Law

Московский журнал международного права, 2014
Increasingly states engage in armed confl icts private military and security companies. It is believed that they are more mobile and effective in comparison with the regular national armed forces.
Vyacheslav N. Kulebyakin, Elena E. Pronina   +1 more
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The Legitimacy of Private Security Companies Working in Iraq [PDF]

دراسات أقليمية, 2010
This research tackles the phenomenon of private security companies which are constituting a phenomenon on the international arena. They exceeded in their work the job entitled to do, turning to perform high quality military operations.
Shahlaa kamal
doaj   +1 more source

Managing Strategically in Public Procurement: Dynamic Capabilities, Set‐Asides, and Contract Outcomes

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A key challenge in public procurement management is balancing equity and efficiency in government procurement. Based on longitudinal data on more than 120,000 US federal service and construction contracts awarded between 2008 and 2018 across over 500 federal agencies, we examine how agency‐level dynamic capabilities shape the performance of ...
Matilde Cappelletti, Leonardo M. Giuffrida, Sohvi Heaton, Donald Siegel   +3 more
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The Application of Telemedicine in Surgery

Med Research, EarlyView.
This figure provides an overview of the content presented in this article. Telemedicine is integrated throughout the entire surgical workflow, with distinct applications across the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases. These applications are enabled by a suite of supporting technologies, while the associated implementation challenges ...
Yufan Yang, Chang Liu, Xue Sun, Yiting Wang, Minghui Zhao, Shuya Jiang, Haoling Zhang, Wangzheqi Zhang, Wenwen Shi   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Problems of the Use of Private Military and Security Companies in the US military operations

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2010
В статье анализируются основные проблемы, связанные с использованием Соединенными Штатами частных военных и охранных компаний1 в военных операциях, прежде всего в Ираке и Афганистане, по материалам соответствующих аналитических докладов американских ...
D. O. Novikova
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