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Takeover bids vs. Proxy Fights in Contests for Corporate Control [PDF]
This paper evaluates the primary mechanisms for changing management or obtaining control in publicly traded corporations with dispersed ownership. Specifically, we analyze and compare three mechanisms: (1) proxy fights (voting only); (2) takeover bids ...
Lucian Bebchuk, Oliver Hart
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Is vote-buying always bad for development? [PDF]
, 2014 Elections in the developing world suffer from considerable problems such as ballot fraud, low voter education. electoral violence, and clientelism. If developing world elections do not revolve mainly around policy accountability, there could be important
Beck, Charles, Vicente, Pedro
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Political Signaling via Equity Ownership: Impacts on Supplier Financial Performance
Journal of Operations Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study offers a new application of signaling theory to better understand the role of equity linkages and political influence on buyer–supplier relationships (BSRs). We examine the signaling effects of a politician's personal equity investment in a buyer firm on the financial performance of the supplier firms located in the politician's ...
Wenming Wang +3 more
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The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Lobbying, Litigation and Administrative Regulation [PDF]
, 2002 One of the central concerns about American policy making institutions is the degree to which political outcomes can be influenced by interested parties.
de Figueiredo, John M. +1 more
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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 +1 more
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, 2011 Introduction and background Elections are the keystone of democracy as we know it, but the spectre of corruption and manipulation hangs over all electoral processes.
Birch, Sarah
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The Bazaar as a Model for Knowledge Work
Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents fieldwork that extends existing metaphors of knowledge work as a process shaped by hierarchical or market forces. A qualitative, ethnographic study of six knowledge‐intensive businesses in two countries identifies striking parallels with the Middle Eastern bazaar in contrast to Western impersonal markets and hierarchies. We
Reed Elliot Nelson +2 more
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, 2019 This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions and policy representation in newly democratic countries, with a focus on Indonesia. In doing so, the book presents a wide-ranging study of the dynamics of vote buying in Indonesia’s young democracy ...
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ESA Governing Board Winter 2026 Meeting Minutes Zoom Meeting March 2, 2026
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Women remain significantly underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. This study examines how different combinations of government accountability mechanisms enhance women's political representation (WPR) as a pathway to leadership in 30 OECD countries.
Samira Nazar, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
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