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Intra-party heterogeneity in policy preferences and its effect on issue salience: Developing and applying a measure based on elite survey data
2017
Quantitative research on party politics often has to assume that parties are unitary actors with homogeneous policy preferences simply because intra-party heterogeneity is difficult to measure. This article proposes a measure of preference heterogeneity based on surveys of party elites. We draw on Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS) data from 28 elections in 21 developed democracies to quantify intra-party heterogeneity and validate this measure. The usefulness of the measure is demonstrated by studying the effects of intra-party heterogeneity on issue salience. We find support for the hypothesis that heterogeneity regarding a policy issue tends to be negatively associated with the emphasi…
Intellectual engagements of accounting academics: The ‘forecasted losses' intervention
2022
This paper explores the social and political potential of accounting scholarship, presenting and discussing an intellectual intervention challenging a legislative reform that significantly affected Spanish industrial relations. In this reform, an accounting artifact (forecasted losses) played an unexpected role and was misrepresented, prompting a sizeable number of scholars to sign two manifestos in 2010 and 2012 against the use of forecasted losses made by the new legislation. As promoters of this manifesto, we perform in this paper a collaborative autoethnography to reflect on the context, events, reactions, and significance of this intervention for both the academic and the industrial re…
Equilibrium mergers in a composite good industry with efficiencies
2014
This paper studies equilibrium merging behavior in composite good industries. Component producers face the option to either merge with a similar component producer (horizontal merger) or a complementary one (complementary merger) of a composite good. Focusing only on strategic reasons, complementary mergers arise at equilibrium only when composite goods are very differentiated while horizontal mergers otherwise. Next, when efficiencies are considered, the level of marginal cost saving required for a horizontal merger in a composite industry to result in a non- increase in the upward price pressure index (UPPI) is greater as compared with the one in a regular industry. This result can be use…
PRICE CONVERGENCE IN THE EUROPEAN CAR MARKET
2008
International audience; This paper examines price convergence in the European Union car market over the period 1995-2005. We find that there is a clear evidence of price convergence among the EU15 countries, but not before 1999. Moreover, countries of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) started convergence previously to the EU15 as a whole. Finally, exchange rate changes have significantly contributed to price dispersion over time across countries. The results provide significant evidence that trade liberalization and the EMU have enhanced the process of regional integration in the European automobile industry, even though there is room for further measures to promote integration.
ANÁLISIS DEL COMPORTAMIENTO DE QUEJA DEL CONSUMIDOR: UNA INVESTIGACIÓN EXPLORATORIA EN EL CONTEXTO DE LOS RESTAURANTES /
2008
RESUMENEl objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la contribución que tiene una serie de determinantes en el comportamiento de queja con el fin de identificar la combinación que mejor explica las respuestas de queja, a terceras partes y privadas. Utilizando el contexto de los restaurantes y la metodología basada en modelos de regresión múltiple (método secuencial de estimación paso a paso), los resultados más relevantes indican que la probabilidad de éxito de la queja es la variable que mayor influencia tiene sobre las respuestas de queja, mientras que es el nivel de insatisfacción en el caso de las respuestas privadas.ABSTRACTThe aim of this paper is to analyze the contribution that a set of …
IMPLICACIONES DEL USO DE BUSCADORES EN EL COMPORTAMIENTO DE COMPRA ONLINE
2009
RESUMENEl objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar los factores que influyen en el uso de buscadores y su incidencia en el comportamiento de compra en Internet. El análisis de resultados obtenidos a partir de una muestra representativa de 485 compradores por Internet españoles, pone de manifiesto que los consumidores que consideran la comodidad, reducciones de precio y amplitud de surtido como motivaciones relevantes para realizar compras online presentan una mayor predisposición al uso de buscadores en la realización de sus compras virtuales. La experiencia como internauta y como comprador en Internet son factores que influyen negativamente en el uso de buscadores para la realización de c…
Mecanismos de coordinación estructural, no estructural e informal: Propuesta y validación de escalas de medida
2008
RESUMENEl presente trabajo tiene como objetivo diseñar y validar escalas para medir diversos mecanismos de coordinación estructural, no estructural e informal. Los primeros están vinculados a puestos u órganos específicos, y nos referimos al diseño de redes, equipos de proyecto y desarrollo, y equipos de trabajo. Los mecanismos de coordinación no estructural sirven de complemento a los anteriores. En este grupo se encuentran la normalización de procesos de trabajo, de habilidades y de resultados. Por último, los mecanismos de carácter informal son el esfuerzo de socialización y la adaptación mutua. Tras la generación de una batería de 43 ítems, se han comprobado sus propiedades psicométrica…
Growth dynamics and space in Brazil
2003
The authors bring together two strands of the empirical literature and analyze the geography of the regional economic performance of the states of the Brazilian Federation from 1939 to 1998. Using tools from spatial statistics, they examine the spatial dependence of regional per capita income in Brazil during the past six decades. They also examine the role of geography in explaining economic growth patterns using intradistribution dynamic tools based on Markov transition matrices and stochastic kernels in a discrete and a continuous framework. The analyses reveal the existence of two spatial clusters in Brazil, a low-income cluster in the northeast and a high-income cluster in the southea…
VET workers’ problem-solving skills in technology-rich environments: European approach
2014
International journal for research in vocational education and training 1 (2014) 1, S. 57-80
Teacher trainees' experiences of the components of ICT competencies and key factors in ICT competence development in work-based vocational teacher tr…
2022
International journal for research in vocational education and training 9 (2022) 2, S. 146-166