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Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance,
- Journal of Finance
, 2007
"... Abstract Many financial markets are characterized by strong relationships and networks, rather than arm's-length, spot-market transactions. We examine the performance consequences of this organizational choice in the context of relationships established when VCs syndicate portfolio company inv ..."
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graph theory, a mathematical discipline widely used in economic sociology. 2 Graph theory provides us with tools for describing networks at a "macro" level and for measuring the relative importance, or "centrality," of each actor in the network. Our centrality measures capture five
Weak Decays of Charm Hadrons: The Next Lesson
- on QCD -- and Possibly More!, in [1
"... Second-generation theoretical technologies – heavy quark expansions, QCD sum rules and QCD simulations on the lattice – are arriving on the scene, allowing a treatment of charm decays that is genuinely based on QCD. The availability of those theoretical tools strengthens the case for the need for co ..."
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Second-generation theoretical technologies – heavy quark expansions, QCD sum rules and QCD simulations on the lattice – are arriving on the scene, allowing a treatment of charm decays that is genuinely based on QCD. The availability of those theoretical tools strengthens the case for the need
Health Governance: Principal-Agent Linkages and Health System Strengthening ." Health Policy and Planning
, 2013
"... Governance is increasingly recognized as an important factor in health system performance, yet conceptually and practically it remains poorly understood and subject to often vague and competing notions of both what its role is and how to address its weaknesses. This overview article for the symposiu ..."
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for the symposium on health governance presents a model of health governance that focuses on the multiplicity of societal actors in health systems, the distribution of roles and responsibilities among them and their ability and willingness to fulfil these roles and responsibilities. This focus highlights
Weakly Institutionalized Party Systems and Presidential Democracy: Evidence from Guatemala 1
, 2011
"... Today, all of Latin America’s presidential republics are at least nominal democracies, with the region’s past experience with frequent military coups an increasingly distant memory. As a result, over the past two decades, many scholars concerned with the health of Latin America’s presidential democr ..."
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and partisan institutions strengthen or weaken the functioning of a country’s democratic system. As the linchpin of a democratic system, political parties have a profound impact on the quality of democracy in a nation. This article highlights the case of Guatemala, where a very weakly institutionalized
Brand Revival REVIVING WEAK AND DEAD BRANDS: INSIGHTS FROM THEORY AND PRACTICE
"... Over the years, many brands such as Oldsmobile, PanAm, and Woolworth have met untimely deaths. Many more have steadily declined into oblivion, while others have been revived. When a brand dies, significant investments that were made to build the brand are also lost. Unfortunately, even the strongest ..."
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of studies that focus on declining brands. In this paper, we use findings from academic literature, detailed case studies, and interviews with marketing executives to provide guidelines to deal with declining brands. We study the conditions that lead to brand decline and brand death, highlight signs that may
Toffel: The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring 1584
- 2013 INFORMS U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
, 2007
"... G overnments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and enforcement of government regul ..."
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franchisees averse to leniency and to oversee their monitoring activities. Indeed, corporations that franchise their brands often distribute to franchisees an operations manual that serves as "a functional tool for enforcing system standards" (Brams 1999, p. 77) and often include in their franchise
Research Article CODEN: IJPNL6 REFORMING SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION OF MEDICINES MANAGEMENT WITH AN AUDIT TOOL IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FACILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF
"... Stock-out of essential medicines is a common problem in primary health facilities of Tanzania. Alternative approaches such as the use of auditing tools have been proposed in order to strengthen the generally weak supportive supervision in medicines management. A cross-sectional study was conducted i ..."
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Stock-out of essential medicines is a common problem in primary health facilities of Tanzania. Alternative approaches such as the use of auditing tools have been proposed in order to strengthen the generally weak supportive supervision in medicines management. A cross-sectional study was conducted
Title: Decentralisation and Accountability in War-to-Peace Transitions: The Case of Kosovo
"... More details/abstract: Pre-submitted version of article for IDS Bulletin 45.5. In spite of the scant evidence of a positive correlation between decentralisation and strengthened local development and governance, decentralisation has been promoted as a tool to consolidate peace and rebuild states in ..."
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More details/abstract: Pre-submitted version of article for IDS Bulletin 45.5. In spite of the scant evidence of a positive correlation between decentralisation and strengthened local development and governance, decentralisation has been promoted as a tool to consolidate peace and rebuild states
Reforming the Anglo-Saxon Model of Labour Inspection: The Case of the
"... ABSTRACT ■ Labour inspection is an increasingly important part of employment standard-setting, as trade union membership and collective bargaining decline. Research identifies two broad approaches to labour inspection. A defining characteristic of the Latin model is that flexibility and enforcement ..."
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are successfully combined in the one regulatory regime. In contrast, the Anglo-Saxon model involves institutional fragmentation and a lack of symmetry between ‘hard ’ and ‘soft ’ regulatory interventions. The case of the Republic of Ireland highlights the weaknesses of the Anglo-Saxon model of labour inspection
Evaluating the Security Controls of CAIS in Developing Countries: The Case of Saudi Arabia
, 2005
"... Abstract. This paper examines the existence and adequacy of implemented Computerized Accounting Information Systems (CAIS) security controls to prevent, detect and correct security breaches in Saudi organizations. An empirical survey, using a self-administered questionnaire, was carried out to achie ..."
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suggestions and recommendations are introduced to strengthen the weak points and to close the loopholes in the present CAIS security controls in Saudi organizations. From a practical standpoint, managers, auditors, IT users and practitioners alike stand to gain from the findings of this study. The results
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