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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 ...
Carl Marcus Wallenburg +1 more
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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 ...
Carl Marcus Wallenburg +1 more
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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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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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Digital twins’ impact on organizational control: perspectives on formal vs social control
Information Technology & People, 2022PurposeThis study examines the connection between different digital-twin characteristics and organizational control. Specifically, the study aims to examine whether the digital-twin characteristics exploration, guidance and gamification will affect formal and social control.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on an analysis of survey results ...
Juhani Ukko +4 more
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Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017
Over the last decades, the management of non-profit organizations (NPOs) has changed considerably.
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Over the last decades, the management of non-profit organizations (NPOs) has changed considerably.
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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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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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Formal Control, Social Control and Guanxi in IT Outsourcing: A Study in Chinese Firms
2017Despite the fast growing trend, it is reported that IT outsourcing in China is fraught with high rates of failure. The buyers of IT outsourcing services in China face difficulties in selecting service providers, negotiating managing contracts, and maintain good relationship due to a lack of systematic guidelines on which governance mechanism to deploy ...
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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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"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....
Yi Liu, Yonghai Liao, Wenqian Li
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