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Religion and governance in microfinance institutions: evidence from the global microfinance industry
2014
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon – Universitetet i Agder 2014 This thesis sought to study the influence of religion on corporate governance in Microfinance Institutions. The study uses secondary data on a sample of rated Christian and secular MFIs compiled in rating reports by rating agencies to compare the governance differences and similarities between Christian and secular MFIs. The research uses the random effects General Least Squares and logistic regression models alongside other univariate statistical methods to test for the effect of religious affiliation on corporate governance. The overall findings indicate that Christian MFIs are significantly less-regulated by banking a…
Endring av organisasjonsstruktur : konsekvenser for bygg- og anleggsprosjekter
2015
Masteroppgave økonomi og administrasjon- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 Denne masteroppgaven er en kvalitativ studie som tar for seg forskningsspørsmålet "Hvordan blir prosjekter i en bygg- og anleggsorganisasjon påvirket av å gå fra matriseorganisasjonsstruktur til linjeorganisasjonsstruktur?". Jernbaneverket har vært benyttet som caseorganisasjon ettersom de i 2014 endret sin organisasjonsstruktur på dette viset. Målet for oppgaven har vært å forstå hvilken betydning organisasjonsstruktur har på gjennomføring av prosjekt, og hvilke konsekvenser en endring har. Dette da organisasjoner i dag har begynt å vende tilbake til den tradisjonelle linjeorganisasjonen. Problemstillingen er særlig gjeld…
Communication structure and collective actions in social media
2010
In this paper I present results a study of different types of social media communication and networking channels that allow for collective action (CA): Twitter, Jaiku / Qaiku, Ning and Facebook. My preliminary findings indicate, that the visual outlining and the structure of communication create different kinds of collectivity and collective actions. A status stream is effective for simple and fast repetitive mass actions and for individual mass broadcasting, while channels and threads are needed as a backchannel for more complicated, coordinated and iterative tasks and support a sense of community. When planning collective action on the Internet, ranging from citizen participation to marke…
Understanding the crowdfunding phenomenon and its implications for sustainability
2019
Abstract Nonetheless the large body of knowledge rapidly accumulated on crowdfunding as well as the growing relevance of this phenomenon for sustainability, there are very few studies on the role of crowdfunding for sustainability-oriented projects, and many related issues are still far from being fully understood. This signalises a clear need for unveiling the main dynamics of the relationship between crowdfunding and sustainability, and also opening up useful directions for future research on this relationship. To conceptualize the implications of crowdfunding for sustainability, we propose and use a framework, encompassing five dimensions, namely the project creator, the backers, the cam…
The Southern African Development Community (SADC): An Analytical Overview of Its History, Policies and Institutional Framework
2017
This chapter gives fundamental background information about the history and development of regionalism in Southern Africa and about the current state of the SADC as a modern regional integration organisation. In terms of an analytical overview, Muntschick reflects briefly on the formation, character and objectives of the region’s old regionalisms such as the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), the Frontline States (FLS) and particularly the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SADCC) as predecessors of the SADC. Also, this chapter turns to the new regionalism and provides detailed information on the SADC as an organisation, its member states, key agenda and central poli…
Politics of the Idea: (Anti-)Platonic Politics in Arendt and Badiou
2020
This paper compares two influential but conflicting contemporary models of politics as an activity: those of Hannah Arendt and Alain Badiou. It discovers the fundamental difference between their approaches to politics in their opposing evaluations of the contemporary political significance of the legacy of Plato, Platonism, and the Platonic Idea. Karl Popper’s and Arendt’s analyses of the inherently ideological nature of totalitarianism are contrasted with Badiou’s vindication of an ideological “politics of the Idea.” Arendt and Badiou are shown to share an understanding of politics as a realm for the human deployment of novelty and world-transformation. Their key disagreement concerns the …
Agrarian Elites and types of Caciquism. The Rafal/Vía Manuel Family from the Crisis of Absolutism to the Crisis of the Restoration Regime
1998
El trabajo trata de explorar la utilidad de la historia social de la política, analizando los rasgos y estrategias de diversos sectores de la nobleza en el contexto del cambio social a partir de la revolución liberal. Se observan tipos diversos de caciquismo en cuanto a sus rasgos sociales y sus raíces políticas, su relación con el poder económico propio y la injerencia del Estado en las rivalidades políticas. Los sectores populares podían hacer valer sus aspiraciones a partir de estas rivalídades entre diversas oligarquías. This article seeks to explore the usefulness of a social history of politics. The authors study the different heritage and political strategies of several noble familie…
Gender and Work-Life Balance: a Contest Analysis on Nursey Schools in Palermo
2018
This paper reflects on the gender inequalities and their influence in the access to labor market and, on the other one, to reproductive process. Maternity and work often arise as choices excluding one another due for the inadequacy of care services. The essay reviews some laws of the last years for encourage the work-life balance and analyzes the presence of the services for children in Palermo. The “case study” of the municipality of Palermo shows a general lack of services and a progressive reduction of public nurseries and kindergarten, despite the economic investments of the last decades at institutional level. It points out how many obstacles persist that discourage female participatio…
Intervention and peace*
2018
Abstract Intervention often does not lead to peace, but rather to prolonged conflict. Indeed, we document that it is an important source of prolonged conflicts. We introduce a theoretical model of the balance of power to explain why this should be the case and to analyse how peace can be achieved: either a hot peace between hostile neighbours or the peace of the strong dominating the weak. Non-intervention generally leads to peace after defeat of the weak. Hot peace can be achieved with sufficiently strong outside intervention. The latter is thus optimal if the goal of policy is to prevent the strong from dominating the weak.
Presumption of Innocence and Deterrence
2018
This paper deals with the presumption of innocence and the law enforcer's incentives to exert investigative effort. Our main result is that, even if the presumption of guilt maximizes deterrence for a given effort by the law enforcer, divergent objectives between the law enforcer (who maximizes the probability of a conviction weighted by the magnitude of the sanction and the type of the citizen) and the public decision-maker (who minimizes social costs) may lead the latter to prefer the presumption of innocence. Indeed, the presumption of innocence may induce the law enforcer to increase investigative efforts thereby improving deterrence. As a consequence, if the law enforcer's effort is re…