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Interaction effects of formal and social controls on business-to-business performance

Journal of Business Research, 2014
Abstract Marketing and Strategy studies have treated relational governance as a critical factor of business-to-business (B2B) performance. Extant studies offer contrasting views on whether formal or social control is a better control mechanism, with little known about their interaction effect.
Jin Hwa Rhee, Jae Wook Kim, Jong-Ho Lee
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Police Legitimacy, Procedural Justice, and Formal Social Control

Procedurally just policing (PJP) has been hailed as a path to greater police legitimacy—which is to say, public trust and confidence in police and a sense of obligation to defer to police and obey the law. Greater police legitimacy is expected to lead to improved public cooperation with law enforcement, such as in reporting crime and calling the police.
Robert E. Worden, Beau P. Holladay, Sarah J. McLean   +2 more
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Modernization, formal social control, and anomie: A 45-society multilevel analysis

International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2017
This 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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Crime in Cities: The Effects of Formal and Informal Social Control

Crime and Justice, 1986
This study examines the structural determinants of robbery and homicide offending in 171 American cities with a population greater than 100,000 in 1980. A macro-level social control model is presented that focuses on the consequences for formal and informal social control of police aggressiveness, jail incarceration risk, state incarceration, and ...
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The control of social intervention:Managing the tension between formal and informal control (WITHDRAWN)

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017
Over the last decades, the management of non-profit organizations (NPOs) has changed considerably.
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Correlates of formal and informal social/crime control in China: An exploratory study

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2007
Abstract There are two major ways for a society to control its members, formal and informal. A major goal of both forms of control is to curb criminal behavior. Formal criminal justice control uses the law and official government agencies (e.g., police, courts, and corrections) to ensure compliance.
Shanhe Jiang, Eric Lambert, Jin Wang
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System Design and Social Reality: Formal and Informal Aspects of Administrative Control

Personnel Review, 1976
When 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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Exploring the Relationships between Strategy, Innovation, and Management Control Systems: The Roles of Social Networking, Organic Innovative Culture, and Formal Controls

Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2011
ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with the relationship between strategy, management control systems (MCS), and innovation. MCS are described in terms of a package of controls that is comprised of social networking, organic innovative culture, and formal controls.
Chenhall, Robert H., Kallunki, Juha-Pekka, Silvola, Hanna   +2 more
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Formal Control, Social Control and Guanxi in IT Outsourcing: A Study in Chinese Firms

2017
Despite 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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The Impact of Formal and Informal Social Controls on the Criminal Activities of Probationers

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2002
The monthly self-reported criminal activities, risk behaviors, and local life circumstances of offenders who began sentences of probation in northern Virginia were examined during the year prior to arrest, between arrest and probation, and during the first eight months of probation.
Doris Layton Mackenzie, Spencer De Li
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