Demystifying the role of a state ownership in corporate governance and firm performance: evidence from the manufacturing sector in Malaysia by Md. Rasli, Amran, Chin, Fei Goh, Khan, Saif-Ur-Rehman

“…Although nonprofit-oriented state ownership firms also receive similar political patronage, they tend to be associated with inefficiencies such as the free-rider problems, bureaucracies and political intervention in firm management. …”
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The unaccountable Federal Accountability Act: Goodbye to responsible government? by S. L. Sutherland

“…Among these are measures to provide for heavy regulation and summary punishment of both parliamentarians and senior public servants, as well as for the “naming and blaming and shaming” of senior public servants at the cost of introducing a policy-administration dichotomy, plus the excessive grants of powers to agents or officers of Parliament and the creation of new “parliamentary” bureaucracies that in fact perform executive functions. …”
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Exploring Regional Development of Digital Humanities Research: A Case Study for Taiwan by Kuang-hua Chen, Bi-Shin Hsueh

“…Preliminary results showed historical materials, events, bureaucracies, and people of Taiwan and China in the Qing Dynasty were the major subjects in the tempo-spatial dimensions. …”
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Dizang and the Three Kings: Constructing Buddhist Hell by Imitating the Bureaucratic System in the Tang Dynasty by Xiao Jiang

“…There are several structural and functional parallels between the underworldly afterlife and the political bureaucracies of the world. The workings of the system in hell changed in texts from different periods, showing the evolution of the Three Departments system during the Tang Dynasty. …”
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Locating Forced Migrants’ Resources: Residency Status and the Process of Family Reunification in Finland by Johanna Hiitola

“…The results show that a variety of resources are needed to navigate the bureaucracies involved in family reunification. Economic resources in one’s country of origin may be used to pay the high administrative and travel costs, as well as other fees required by government officials to obtain visas for family members. …”
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Towards an inclusive pedagogy in South Africa by SIGAMONEY NAICKER

“…With the Neo-Liberal paradigm, working class children run the risk of remaining in the margins of society.  Modern day bureaucracies are victims of the performance culture that is promoted by the World Bank other supra national organisations.…”
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Políticas de control migratorio en Argentina: de las tecnologías del límite a las tecnologías de la frontera (1915-1950) by Manuel Andrés Pereira

“…Conclusion: The article concludes that the entrance control and permanence control needed the development of new technologies and bureaucracies, and institutions capable of producing information about immigrants’ authorized residency in the “national territory.” …”
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GLOBAL CHALLENGES TO THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY by LANCE T. LELOUP

“…(6) Do antiquated bureaucracies and the lack of autonomy of universities handicap European universities in meeting global competition? …”
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Views from within the State: Brazilian public managers’ perceptions from 1993–2013 by Barbara Goulart

“…Moreover, this paper contributes to a broader discussion about government bureaucracies in the Global South, using Brazil as a valid example. …”
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Political Economy of Reform for Service Delivery by Floribert Ngaruko

“…Finally, administrative decentralization may leverage effectively civil service reforms seeking to align central bureaucracies with the objective of poverty reduction through enhanced service delivery. …”
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Successes and challenges of a university-based agroecological community garden and educational program in Japan by Benjamin Schrager, Hiroki Ikeda, Takahashi Yukitsugu

“…We stress the importance of recognizing the contexts in which alternative agricultural initiatives emerge, and the reality that conflicts often arise because alternative agricultural goals differ from the goals of the markets, states, and bureaucracies in which they operate. …”
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Una mirada al Estado desde la educación en una comunidad shipibo-conibo by Giancarlo Rolando

“…El Estado se hace presente en la vida cotidiana de sus ciudadanos a través de las interacciones en que estos se envuelven con aquellos servidores públicos que pertenecen a lo que Michael Lipsky denomina Street-level bureaucracies, tales como policías o maestros de escuela. …”
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Not Only Economics: The Political Economy of Euro Adoption in Romania by Radu ŞIMANDAN, Beatrice LEUȘTEAN, Răzvan DOBRESCU

“…Under what circumstances may bureaucracies such as the central bank body of experts act as a deterrent for the political end that is the single currency adoption? …”
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On the Meaning of the PRC’s Development Since 1949 by Ernest G. Raiklin

“…China’s development from 1949 to present has taken several socioeconomic forms: 1949-1958, from a prevalent nonstate feudalism to a dominant state feudalism; 1960-1966, elements of mixed capitalism within state feudalism; 1966-1976, the split within the state capitalist and feudal bureaucracies; since 1978, authoritarian state capitalism. …”
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Epistemology of epidemiology: the case of Ungdata by Ida Hydle

“…The knowledge bases, epidemiological practices, technicalities, economic premises for the work and also data publishing is handled by social scientists at Norwegian Social Research, NOVA, located at Oslo Metropolitan University. State bureaucracies, e.g. ministries and directorates, municipalities etc. can ask for investigations and overviews. …”
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Harnessing indigenous social institutions for technology adoption: ‘Afoosha’ society of Ethiopia by Desalegn Yadeta Wedajo, Temesgen Keno Belissa, Mideksa Fufa Jilito

“…The use of statutory channels evidenced to largely limit the innovation diffusion and the timely reach of technologies to the end user farmers for adoption due to their operational inefficiencies and bureaucracies emanating from statutory rules and regulations. …”
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Administrative reform, cross-border relations and regional identity in Western Poland by Parkin, R

“…I examine this topic with respect of the province of Lubuskie, in western Poland, with special but not exclusive reference to the attitudes and activities of local bureaucracies in this regard. An additional theme is the extent to which the latter are also involved in establishing and maintaining cross-border relations with towns over the border in Germany. …”

Examining the adaptability of collaborative governance associated with publicly managed ecosystems over time: insights from the Front Range Roundtable, Colorado, USA by Antony S. Cheng, Andrea K. Gerlak, Lisa Dale, Katherine Mattor

“…We find that the Roundtable has been highly sensitive to internal and external changes, and that the absence of mechanisms through which social networks and learning can be durably linked to implementation decisions of bureaucracies with management authority compromises the Roundtable's continued adaptability. …”
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Exploring shared leadership in public organizations: evidence from the educational arena by Juliana Carvalho, Filipe Sobral, Juliana Mansur

“…Abstract Collective leadership, reflecting the representative and participatory character of bureaucracies, is known to have a good fit for public organizations. …”
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Reinventing VAT collection : industry vertical assessment, revenue increase, and public sector reliability by Pinhanez, Monica F. (Monica Fornitani)

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