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Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2014
Governance is critical to an alliance relationship as it aids in curbing opportunism and thus in achieving higher performance. While research suggests relational governance as well as formal control mechanisms as viable means to reduce opportunistic behavior in an alliance relationship, the effectiveness of the interplay of these governance forms ...
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Governance is critical to an alliance relationship as it aids in curbing opportunism and thus in achieving higher performance. While research suggests relational governance as well as formal control mechanisms as viable means to reduce opportunistic behavior in an alliance relationship, the effectiveness of the interplay of these governance forms ...
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Formal perspectives on shared interbrain activity in social communication
Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2022The mechanisms underlying a reorientation of neuroscience from a single-brain to a multi-brain frame of reference have long been with us. These revolve around the evolutionary exaptation of the inevitable second-law 'leakage' of crosstalk between co-resident cognitive phenomena.
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Modernization, formal social control, and anomie: A 45-society multilevel analysis
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2017This article investigates how economic modernization affects normative regulation by spurring formal social control in the political, economic, and private spheres as well as anomie. Multilevel negative binomial regression modeling, using World Values Survey and country-level data from 2005, predicts individual-level anomie using country-level formal ...
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Predictors of desistance among sex offenders: The interaction of formal and informal social controls
Justice Quarterly, 2000Increasing attention is being given to the issue of desistance or cessation in adult criminal careers. We contribute to this research by considering how informal and formal social controls affect recidivism among 556 sex offenders placed on probation in 1992.
Candace Kruttschnitt +2 more
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System Design and Social Reality: Formal and Informal Aspects of Administrative Control
Personnel Review, 1976When computers were first used in work organizations they were seen principally as devices able to perform simple and limited functions. In consequence they were used to automate routine tasks which had previously been done manually — producing bills, payrolls etc — and they appeared in organizations primarily concerned with large‐scale information ...
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"Formal Control, Social Networks and CSR: A Study of the Buyer-Supplier Relationship Context"
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015Despite wide recognition that a downstream buyer should extend its responsibility to ensure its upstream supplier behaves in a socially responsible way, how the buyer can do so remains in question....
Wenqian Li, Yi Liu, Yonghai Liao
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A Letter from China: Social Control in China—A Formal or an Informal Mechanism?
Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 2001Many think that formal social control refers to a criminal justice system in which there are rather many state organs/agencies (eg, police, courts, prisons) to maintain public order, while informal social control refers to the broader social system. This paper argues that China has traditionally established a social control system by making use of the ...
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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 1998
Many studies have examined gender bias within juvenile court processing of delinquents, but few have examined the theoretical relationship between informal and formal social controls and a juvenile offender's disposition. This thesis integrates Black's theory of social control and feminist theory to hypothesize that a breakdown in informal controls ...
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Many studies have examined gender bias within juvenile court processing of delinquents, but few have examined the theoretical relationship between informal and formal social controls and a juvenile offender's disposition. This thesis integrates Black's theory of social control and feminist theory to hypothesize that a breakdown in informal controls ...
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Collective Sanctions and Compliance Norms: A Formal Theory of Group-Mediated Social Control
American Sociological Review, 1990The link between external sanctions and intragroup normative control is examined to distinguish the conditions under which the two control systems augment or weaken one another. I construct a dynamic rational choice model that incorporates essential features of the sanction/norm link.
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Formal or informal social control? Responding to family polyvictimization
2016Building on his research on co-occurrence of violence within a family, Dr. Chan is the first to develop and apply the concept of family polyvictimization in literature. When studying the co-occurring victimization within a family, current literature often focuses on individual violence and fails to cover three forms of violence or more in a family. Dr.
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