ABSTRACT The article argues that the European Central Bank's (ECB) regulatory stance toward cryptocurrencies was underpinned by efforts to preserve legitimacy and monetary sovereignty. Triangulating a content analysis on the ECB's policy statements on cryptocurrencies, examination of European macroeconomic data, and price dynamic analysis of Bitcoin ...
Anson Au
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The Adoption of Lotteries in the United States, 1964–2007 : A Model of Conditional and Time-Dynamical Diffusion [PDF]
The paper examines the determinants of the diffusion of state lotteries as a process of policy innovation. After more than 100 years of prohibition, U.S. states began to establish lotteries in the 1960s.
Lutter, Mark
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Handling Uncertainty of Strategic Ambitions—The Use of Organizational Identity as a Risk-Reducing Device [PDF]
Organizational identity can be designed to reduce the risks of uncertainty about future states of public organizations and the inherent potential issues related to evaluation and assessment.
Albert S. +27 more
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Abstract Given a looming crisis of environmental degradation, this conceptual review revisits certain long‐standing assumptions informing the development of management theory. Specifically, we problematise seminal notions of paradigm differentiation at the heart of Burrell and Morgan's theory of paradigms by arguing that assumptions of paradigm ...
Christian William Callaghan +1 more
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“Sustainable University” – empirical evidence and strategic recommendations for holistic transformation approaches to sustainability in higher education institutions [PDF]
Sustainable development, and the process of institutional transformation this requires, remains a considerable challenge for universities. Worldwide, only a few universities are to date confronting these challenges. Through its initiatives “Agenda 21 and
Adomssent, Maik +2 more
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Each state is responsible for the security of its citizens. The way in which it understands to build this desiderate differs from state to state.
Ionut Octavian ROSCA
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Ethical trust and social moral norms simulation : a bio-inspired agent-based modelling approach
The understanding of the micro-macro link is an urgent need in the study of social systems. The complex adaptive nature of social systems adds to the challenges of understanding social interactions and system feedback and presents substantial scope and ...
Larkin, Henry +2 more
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How Formal and Informal Institutions of Middle Eastern Countries Influence Managerial Discretion: An Empirical Investigation [PDF]
Managerial discretion is the focal theme bridging the clash between two schools of thoughts; whether executives have greater influence on their firms’ outcomes or other factors restrain their actions (Hambrick & Finkelstein, 1987).
Christodoulou, I. +5 more
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"When people take action ...":mainstreaming malcontent and the role of the celebrity institutional entrepreneur [PDF]
As the challenges of sustainability intensify at a global level, it is becoming increasingly more important to encourage, support and promote the mainstream adoption of mindful and ecologically-viable consumption.
Cronin, James, Hopkinson, Gillian
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Local and global: mesogovernments and territorial identities [PDF]
Colloquium on ‘Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies’, IPSA Research Committee on Politics and Ethnicity. University of Santiago (July 17-19, 1998), Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Printed in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 5 (3-4): 61-75,
Moreno, Luis
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