Corruption in emerging countries: A matter of isomorphism

Available online: http://www.management-aims.com/PapersMgmt/121Venard.pdfInternational audienceThis paper, based on neo-institutional literature, focuses on the influence of organizational isomorphism on corruption in emerging countries. A questionnaire was administered in face-to-face interviews with top executives in firms across various economic sectors in emerging countries. Our findings lead us to conclude that corruption is influenced by coercive, mimetic and competitive isomorphism. This study indicates that the higher the quality of a given institutional framework, the lower the level of corrupt behaviour. Furthermore, we suggest that corruption is explained by mimetism within the same economic sector. We thus conclude that a firm is more likely to resort to corruption if its competitors already adopt corrupt behaviour

Institutions, Corruption and Sustainable Development

International audienceThis paper aims to analyze the relationship between institutional quality, corruption level, and economic development. The methodology makes use of cross-national data developed by the World Bank on perceived levels of corruption, institutional framework quality and economic development to test various hypotheses. The added value of this paper is thus to investigate the impact of both institutional framework quality and corruption on economic development. A significant addition to the literature is made by using genuine wealth growth per capita as a proxy for economic development, rather than GDP growth per capita (Ehrlich, Lui, 1999). One other original contribution is the application of the rarely used PLS (Partial Least Squares) structural equation modelling to evaluate the proposed scheme. The empirical research supports the "sand in the wheel" school of thought in relation to the effects of corruption on economic development

The Impact of World Bank’s Conditionality-Ownership Hybrid on Forest Management in Cameroon: Policy Hybridity in International Dependence Development

Many developing countries depend on the World Bank for development assistance, which the Bank often provides with policy reform conditions. Resistance to World Bank’s conditionality caused the Bank to posit “ownership” as a country’s real assent to its development policies. The combination of ownership and conditionality invalidates the neocolonial, false-paradigm and dualism theses in explaining the international dependence development model. This study explains this model by investigating how the relationship between conditionality and ownership in the context of this model impacts forest management in Cameroon. Integrating theoretical and methodological insights mainly from political science, economics, geosciences, and sociology, the study finds that in this model, conditionality and ownership have a hybrid relationship that fosters and hinders effective forest management in Cameroon. This finding positions policy hybridity within this model. It proposes a nouvelle way to understand international development policies’ interactions, and the effects of the interactions on natural resource management

Disruptive Effects of the Coronavirus – Errors of Commission and of Omission?

It is increasingly evident that the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, is more than a health problem; it is and will continue to adversely affect work and workplaces, education, families and social engagements, political and environmental dimensions, and financial indicators. Apart from its health ramifications, the crisis is revealing serious challenges in the global supply chain. Those difficulties are, at least in part, consequences of unwise, short-sighted business decisions made over the course of decades to outsource and downsize

A study of the differences between boys and girls and between boys and girls of different IQ levels, on a certain selection of subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children

Research and study aimed at understanding the intellectual structure and functioning of the retarded and the slow learner has been minimal. One of the most significant contributions in this direction has been the previously mentioned study of WISC subtest scores by Baumeister and Bartlett which discerned the Stimulus Trace factor appearing in certain of the scores of retardates but not in those of normals. The present study was undertaken primarily to examine sex differences between particular subtest scores of the so-called Stimulus Trace factor in a specific group of retarded and slow learners in a particular locale. More specifically, the intentions of this study were to answer the following questions: 1. Is there a difference between the sexes in the total group on the Full Scale IQ\u27s, Verbal IQ\u27s, and Performance IQ\u27s? 2. Is there a difference between the sexes in the total group on the scores of the subtests which are related to the Stimulus Trace factor? 3. Is there a difference between the sexes in the IQ group below 69 on Full Scale IQ\u27s, Verbal IQ\u27s, and Performance IQ\u27s? 4. Is there a significant difference between the sexes in the IQ group below 69 on certain selected subtests of the WISC? 5. Is there a difference between the sexes in the IQ group from 70 to 79 on Full Scale IQ\u27s, Verbal IQ\u27s, and Performance IQ\u27s? 6. Is there a significant difference between the sexes in the IQ group from 70 to 79 on certain selected subtests of the WISC? 7. Is there a difference between the sexes in the IQ group from 80 to 89 on Full Scale IQ\u27s, Verbal IQ\u27s, and Performance IQ\u27s? 8. Is there a significant difference between the sexes in the IQ group from 80 to 89 on certain selected subtests of the WISC

Our Wicked Problem

The Coronavirus is more than a health problem. It is a “wicked” problem disrupting work, education, travel, politics, financial indicators, and more. This label came about in 1973 to help describe a special class of situations that are volatile, uncertain and ambiguous, often difficult to recognize, and difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements. There is no clear problem definition due to interdependencies so the problem cannot be fully understood until after the solution comes about

METPRO: a case study in diversity and newspaper economics

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on January 20, 2010).Thesis advisor: Dr. Earnest L. Perry.Includes bibliographical references.M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2009.Dissertations, Academic -- University of Missouri--Columbia -- Journalism.METPRO (Minority Editorial Training Program) was an acclaimed program in the newspaper industry that trained journalists of color, beginning with reporters in 1984 and expanding to copy editors in 1989. Through long interviews with 25 of the copy-editing fellows, in addition to interviews with top editors and officials at Times Mirror, this study shows what the program meant to those beginning in journalism. For many young journalists of color, it was a foot in the door to opportunities they may not have had for many years, if ever. The program not only helped those of color break into the business, but it also helped newspapers themselves, during a time when newsrooms were pushing to increase the diversity of their staffs. And because copy editors play a large role as gatekeepers in the final production of the newspaper, this research also shows how considerable a role these participants had, through personal anecdotes recalling mistakes and offensive language or art, as pertaining to issues of race, ethnicity and gender, that did not make the newspaper because these copy editors were there to stop them. While successful on many levels, financial pressures came to bear on the program. It met its demise in an era of economic trouble and retrenchment among newspapers

Observations on the Biology and Morphology of Ophyra Aenescens (Diptera: Muscidae)

Author Institution: Department of Zoology and Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus 1