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Transitional Politics of Memory: Political Strategies of Managing the Past in Post-communist Romania
2017
The article develops a typology of political strategies of coming to terms with the past as a theoretical frame of reference against which it assesses the transitional politics of memory pursued in...
Short Term Dynamics of Tourist Arrivals: What Do Italian Destinations Have in Common?
2011
This work aims to detect the common short term dynamics to yearly time series of 413 Italian tourist areas. We adopt the clustering technique of Abraham et al. (Scand J Stat. 30:581–595, 2003) who propose a two-stage method which fits the data by B-splines and partitions the estimated model coefficients using a k-means algorithm. The description of each cluster, which identifies a specific kind of dynamics, is made through simple descriptive cross tabulations in order to study how the location of the areas across the regions or their prevailing typology of tourism characterize each group.
Exploring management control system typologies : an organisation-level view
2020
PurposeManagement controls are the processes and mechanisms managers use to influence the behaviour of individuals and groups towards the organisation’s objectives and goals. Discrete management controls and management control system (MCS) frameworks have been extensively researched, but there is little research on organisation-level MCS types. This study aims to identify organisation-level MCS types.Design/methodology/approachThis study draws on the MCS type literature, the competing values framework and the upper echelons theory to form organisation effectiveness and top management team constructs to characterise firms. Cluster analysis was used to group a sample of 318 firm-years into MC…
Online environments in children’s everyday lives: children’s, parents’ and teachers’ points of view
2015
Purpose – This article aims to explore the role of online environments in children’s everyday life. We examine the meanings that children aged 11-13, parents and teachers derive from their understanding of online environments and make a typology of the perceived opportunities and risks of the online environments for children. The research questions are: how do children, parents and teachers experience the effect of online environments on children’s everyday lives, what opportunities and risks for children are noticed in online environments and what similarities and differences are there in children’s, parents’ and teachers’ point of views in terms of opportunities and risks? The theoretica…
Sraffa, Wittgenstein y Gramsci
2016
Two distinct but interrelated issues are investigated here. The first concerns Sraffa's critical role in contemporary philosophy through his pivotal influence on Wittgenstein. The intellectual origins of this profound influence can be traced to the philosophical interests of the activist political circle in Italy (clustered around the journal L'Ordine Nuovo) to which both Sraffa and Antonio Gramsci belonged. The second inquiry concerns the influence of Sraffa's philosophical views on his economics. Sraffa's economic contributions can be much better understood by paying attention to the way Sraffa changed the nature of the questions asked, rather than seeking different answers to already est…
La continuidad del crecimiento económico en España: 1850-1936
1998
El crecimiento de la economía española durante los siglos XDC y xx ha sido en gran medida singular. Mientras en el siglo XDí España permaneció al margen del proceso de industrialización, durante el siglo xx se ha unido al reducido grupo de los países desarrollados. Este artículo contrasta para la etapa 1850-1936 la existencia de rupturas dentro de este proceso, aplicando diferentes tests econométricos asociados a los trabajos de Perron y de Zivot y Andrews, a las series de PNB, producción industrial e inversión. Los resultados confirman una continuidad básica en el crecimiento español. Sin embargo, muestran también la existencia de dos cambios de nivel: 1870 para la producción industrial y …
La política presupuestaria de la Dictadura de Primo de Rivera: ¿una reconsideración necesaria?
1986
La política económica desarrollada por la dictadura del general Primo de Rivera ha sido objeto, durante los últimos años, de una atención considerable. Desde que el profesor Velarde publicara su pionera aportación, numerosos especialistas han abordado, desde distintas perspectivas y con una valoración también divergente, el estudio de las principales medidas económicas adoptadas por el régimen autoritario durante los siete años en que estuvo en el poder. En todas ellas, sin embargo, se ha tendido a reconocer una importancia notable a la gestión de las finanzas públicas. Bien para destacar su relevancia en el crecimiento de la renta, bien para criticar el marasmo financiero que Calvo Sotelo …
The impact of societal cultural values and individual social beliefs on the perceived effectiveness of managerial influence strategies: a meso approa…
2004
This paper reports the findings of a 12-nation study designed to test empirically the relationships between societal cultural values, individual social beliefs, and the perceived effectiveness of different influence strategies. The relationships between three types of broad influence strategy (persuasive, assertive, and relationship based) and four dimensions of individual beliefs (cynicism, fate control, reward for application, and religiosity) were examined. Three of Project GLOBE's cultural values (in-group collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and future orientation) were selected to investigate their direct effects on the rated effectiveness of influence strategies, and their possible i…
Culture and current account balances
2014
This article contributes to the literature of current account balances by introducing cultural variables that until now have been omitted. The World Values Survey indicates that the Roman Catholics do not consider thrift as important as others. We propose that Catholic countries tend to run current account deficits. This result remains robust even if we control for close to all of the determinants that have been included in previous studies. We find evidence that the inclination of Catholic countries to have high levels of uncertainty avoidance goes to a great length in explaining the result. peerReviewed
Estimating regional differences in the utilization of labour resources
1993
This paper introduces a method for the analysis of regional differences in the utilization of labour resources. The method developed is a version of ‘components-of-change’ analysis in which labour force utilization in each regional labour market is compared with the sitation of a labour market with the highest level of utilization. The aggregate measure is split up into three components: open (registered) unemployment, hidden unemployment and underemployment. The effects of structural factors on aggregate differences are also estimated. In the empirical section the situation of Finnish provinces in 1989 is analysed within the framework developed. The results indicated the existence of large…