The Contribution of Critical Theory to New Thinking on Peacekeeping: Some Lessons from MINURSO

YesThis paper sums up the findings from the first comprehensive study on the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. This research project explores the possibilities of using a Foucualtian analysis to look at the links between peacekeeping practice and Western policies of conflict containment in the Western Sahara with a view to enhancing UN conflict resolution capabilities

Quaternion kinematics for the error-state KF

A complete compendium of Quaternion formulas, with applications to Kalman filtering for visual-inertial navigation.Preprin

La localización industrial en España: una revisión de la literatura

La revisión de la literatura que se lleva a cabo en este articulo sobre las publicaciones relacionadas con la localización industrial en España esta condicionada por diferentes aspectos. En primer lugar, por tratarse de un fenómeno que en el ambito académico puede abordarse desde diversas perspectivas: histórica, geográfica y económica, aunque en la practica tampoc hay que olvidar 10s elementos urbanisticos y de ordenación del territorio, que inciden de manera tan directa en la distribución espacial de la actividad económica. Esta diversidad en 10s ámbitos de estudio comporta una dispersión temática de las referencias bibliográficas, 10 que, de entrada, plantea el problema de la identificación y selección de las mas relevantes, tanto dentro de cada área como en relación a 10s otros enfoques. Un primer problema es, pues, como ((ponderar)) la importancia absoluta y relativa de 10s trabajos de tipo histórico, geográfico y económico sobre la localización industria

Personal Relations and their Effect on Behavior in an Organizational Setting: An Experimental Study

We study how personal relations affect performance in organizations. In the experimental game we use a manager has to assign different degrees of decision power to two employees. These two employees then have to make distributive decisions which affect themselves and the manager. Our focus is on the effects on managers' assignment of decision power and on employees' distributive decisions of one of the employees and the manager knowing each other personally. Our evidence shows that managers tend to favor employees that they personally know and that these employees tend, more than other employees, to favor the manager in their distributive decisions. However, this behavior does not affect the performance of the employees that do not know the manager. All these effects are independent of whether the employees that know the manager are more or less productive than those who do not know the manager. The results shed light on discrimination and nepotism and its consequences for the performance of family firms and other organizations.Family firms, nepotism, corporate governance, procedural fairness, experiments