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Regulation of Telecommunications: The Choice Between Market and Regulatory Failures
Purpose - The paper examines the main regulatory frameworks of the telecommunications industry through the concept of market failure and analyses how and why the policy often leads to undesirable outcomes that might be considered as regulatory failure. Methodology/approach/design - The research uses the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications as a base for the analysis of the main...
... and exploitation of regulatory mechanisms have an enormous temptation and tremendous opportunities to use a legal system for their own benefits. Therefore, it is of a paramount significance to understand how regulation can be used for the interests of such interest groups and to expose the ... -
Communities of practice: creating and sharing knowledge/Comunidades de pratica: criacao e compartilhamento do conhecimento/Comunidades de practica: creacion y accion de compartir el conocimiento.
... By supporting the CoPs the company could get more benefits and utilize their potential to create knowledge and innovate products and services. Despite the lack of support and recognition, the CoPs have ...
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Validity and time of contractual obligations arising from compensation in Iran and British Law
Three ways to enforce the same obligation are to terminate and pay damages in respect of the guarantee of contravening contractual obligations in common legal systems, although the primacy of these compensatory methods varies from one to another in each system. In England, four types of damages are foreseen for breach of contractual obligations: compensatory or remedial damages, recovery or...
... if it is to be considered in calculating the expected loss in gross profit, then it can not be claimed to be liable to the reimbursement of benefits Also posed (Stone, 2002, 46) ... Famous Chaplin lawsuits against Hicks in 1911 and Eid Ramsey Lutte Group against Simmons and Wimmons in 1995 ... -
The Influence of Organizational Reconciliation Policies and Culture on Workers Stress Perceptions
Work-family reconciliation plays a crucial role in the well-being of employees, having impacts at the individual, social and organizational level. Studies concluded that poor work-life balance as one of the ten predictors of psychosocial risks at work. A family-friendly culture relates to how an organization values and allows the articulation of the various spheres of its workers’ life. We...
... Thompson, C. A., Beauvais, L. L., & Lyness, K. S. (1999). When work-family benefits are not enough: ... The influence of work-family culture on benefit utilization, organizational attachment, and work-family conflict. Journal of ... -
Legal regulation of state - society partnership
... either studying social technology, aimed at fostering unity within state authorities and communities through providing some or other social benefits (social services, labour, and employment status), or analysing the processes of interaction and decision-making between actors involved in the ...
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Facial recognition, law enforcement and the identity-australian matching services (?ims') bill
Th is paper focus on the use of facial recognition technology (‘FRT’) by Australian government for the purpose of law enforcement. Th e use of FRT to law enforcement presents several challenges (risks) for which there are no easy solutions, but that need to be recognized more broadly, such as the lack of accuracy, bias, impact on civil liberties (privacy), security risks. Th is research has a...
... • Ensure independent oversight ... IV. CONCLUSION ... There are many benefits in the use of FRT, but also associated issues and controversy. On the one hand, FRT is helping achieve a rapid and efficient law enforcement ... -
The Public Choice View at the 'Deregulation' Movement: Analyzing the Experience of European Telecommunications
Purpose - The liberalization of European telecommunications has been expressed in highly concentrated markets with several major players at the pan-European level. Instead of fostering competitive marketplaces, the reform has created an oligopolistic landscape with powerful private corporations. This induces reasonable questions about the real objectives and the chosen ways of the reform....
... , the opening of the international telecommunications sphere signified opportunities to expand their business empires and that these benefits outweighed the losses from the necessity of reciprocal duties to allow competitors to enter their local marketplaces (see, e.g., Clifton, ... -
Network effects on radical innovation and financial performance: An open-mindedness approach.
... The benefits derived from networks constitute the definition for the organization social capital (Coleman, 1988; Houghton, Smith, & Hood, 2009). By social capital ...
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Ethical leadership in South Africa and Botswana.
... Our aim was to establish potential benefits from ethical leadership in public sector agencies by analysing ethical leadership characteristics in the public sector from Botswana and South ...
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Corrupção, ética governamental e corporativa: uma visão geral do progresso no direito comparado e no Brasil
Este trabalho trata do panorama da governança corporativa privada contra a corrupção, bem como das iniciativas governamentais para reprimir esse fenômeno. O problema de pesquisa pode ser formulado da seguinte forma: quais são as diretrizes estabelecidas para caracterizar a corrupção institucional e seu tratamento no Brasil e no mundo, tanto no setor público quanto no privado? A hipótese é que...
... The reason for this is because of the economic and commercial benefits" of retaining these clients overwhelm the advisors’ professional ... responsibility—highlighting the lack of Corporate Social Responsibility (\xE2" ... -
Regardless of their sex' or 'biological differences'. An analysis of the European Court of Human Rights case law on women in prison
Nos últimos anos, uma atenção crescente às especificidades da detenção feminina estimulou a adoção de um corpus consolidado de ferramentas internacionais de soft law, bem como relatórios sobre as condições das mulheres encarceradas. Esse momento não se refletiu nas decisões dos tribunais para que o gênero fosse tratado como uma questão-chave na determinação de possíveis violações dos direitos das
... 33 Ivi, p. 1 ... 34 See ibidem: “The growing recognition of the benefits of fully embracing substantive gender equality in all areas of policy-making should extend to the prevention of ill-treatment in prison. Greater ... -
Uberization of labor and Marx's Capital
In the last decade, we saw the expansion of digital platforms and decentralized and freelance labor relations in the global capitalist economy. This combination has been called Gig Economy and its specific labor relation Uberization. This process is directly link to the intensification of work, working day expansion, low remuneration, absence of labor rights and amplification of indirect control...
... goods and services from spaces connected to online platforms or even decentralized networks that can result in monetary or non-monetary benefits. A clear example of this idea of sharing can be seen on Wikipedia, where any individual connected to the Internet can make a significant (or not) ... -
Self-enforcing constitutional amendments rules: a dialogue with Richard Albert's Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions
O livro inovador de Richard Albert, Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking and Changing Constitutions com certeza fornece a análise mais extensiva das regras de emendas constitucionais já publicada. É particularmente relevante que, diferente de parte da literatura constitucional que força suposições normativas, Albert traz importantes ideias sobre como as regras de emendas constitucionais...
... His analysis is followed by a very detailed discussion of costs and benefits of such a behavior. He stresses the words “instability”, “dialogic interactions”, “contestability”, “transparency”, “civic ... -
Ownership concentration and share issue: Evidence from Latin America/ Concentracao de propriedade e emissao de acao: Evidencia da America Latina.
... URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1 111/j.1468-0351.2007.00291.x ... Dyck, A. andZingales, L. (2004). Private benefits of control: An international comparison, Journal of Finance 59(2): 537-600. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1 ...
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O uso do compliance como instrumento de prevenção contra o aumento da criminalidade econômica
Este estudo apresenta o debate a respeito do uso do compliance como instrumento de prevenção contra o aumento da criminalidade econômica, destacando as principais abordagens sobre o instituto e os seus benefícios. Além disso, discute-se a respeito do aumento da criminalidade econômica, referenciando o surgimento e a evolução legislativa penal sobre o tema. A abordagem tem como recorte de análise...
... the use of compliance as an instrument to prevent the increase in economic crime, highlighting the main approaches to the institute and its benefits. Furthermore, we discuss the increase in economic crime, referring to the emergence and evolution of criminal legislation on the subject. The ... -
Is it possible to identify transformational leadership in a financial institution?
... Transactional leadership derives from transactions, based on positive or negative performances, which can result in benefits for the employee or punishments. That is, followers agree with this leader in exchange for rewards, compliments, or to avoid disciplinary sanctions ...
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Future Intention to disclose personal information via mobile apps
This study analyses the future intention to disclose personal information in order to use apps and the framing effect in relation to privacy concerns. To test the effects, an experiment was conducted involving 405 participants, using a single-factor design with independent groups and covariates. The results indicate concern about privacy is negatively related to the future intention, confirming...
... information, through mobile applications, in a study that examined the factors that influence the decision between receiving perceived benefits and being penalized with perceived risks (Wang, Duong & Chen, 2016). This was demonstrated that self-presentation and personalized services influence ... -
The Usefulness of Operating Cash Flow for Predicting Business Bankruptcy in Medium-Sized Firms.
... Laitinen (1994) focused on differentiating between the capacity to predict business failure of cash flow, understood as the sum of benefits plus amortizations and depreciations (the author called it TRCF) (iii), and the cash flow taken from cash flow statements (OPCF), finding that the ...
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Antecedents and Consequences of Three Selling Strategies in Social Enterprises.
... Similarly, hybrid social enterprises are expected to generate economic benefits and produce a notable social impact (Nascimento & Salazar, 2020) ... Although hybrid social enterprises exist in several sectors and vary in their ...
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Value Drivers: Scientific Knowledge Advances and Research Avenues.
... An accurate value drivers' choice benefits the company by helping managers understand how value is created and how it can be maximized, guiding the resource allocation and aligning all ...
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The influence of project leaders' behavioral competencies on the performance of Six Sigma projects.
... (PMBOK) definition, (PMI, 2008), a program can be defined as a group of related projects managed in a coordinated manner to achieve strategic benefits and control that would not be available if they were individually managed ... Thus, it is possible to deploy Six Sigma within enterprises as a ...
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Legal challenges of solitary and joint commitments of the European Union member states toward the refugees and immigrants / desafios legais dos compromissos solitários e conjuntos dos Estados-membros da União Europeia em relação aos refugiados e....
European immigration laws are more subjected to domestic law than the European system. Rules like Dublin Regulation lost their efficiency in the Refugees crisis. According to Direct Effect Rule, If the EU legislate immigration rules, member states are obliged to comply with it. Legally, the EU’s outsourcing policy (transference the immigrants to countries of origin or third parties due to...
... In terms of the foreign policy, France has always been willing to intervene in some areas which has political vital benefits, and in this regard, France considers the foreign policies as well. By reforming some laws in 2006, the government of France implemented the numerous ... -
The role of trait emotional intelligence in predicting networking behavior.
... In the business world, a network usually involves contacts with a variety of colleagues for the purpose of mutual work benefits and they are important for accomplishing tasks and professional development (Linehan & Scullion, 2008). Thus, professional networks include contacts ...
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Europe criticizes Bolsonaro's environmental policies in symbolic vote
... EU-Mercosur deal would represent the largest agreement of this type and has the potential to create an open market zone that provides mutual benefits for approximately 800 million citizens. The report also stresses that the agreement, like all EU trade agreements, must ensure fair competition and ...
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Poder local e globalização: o empoderamento social e a proteção do patrimônio natural no federalismo brasileiro
A Constituição Federal de 1988 da República Federativa do Brasil, em seus dispositivos, dotou de autonomia os Municípios para que estes conduzissem práticas locais de planejamento de desenvolvimento socioeconômico e ordenação de uso do solo, visando a sadia qualidade de vida da população e o desenvolvimento sustentável do local. O presente artigo traça algumas linhas sobre a importância da...
... that guides the bases of action of the Public Power, since it seeks to organize the activities developed in society, maximizing their benefits and avoiding that they interfere with each other through an efficient Municipal Public Administration ... As a way of ensuring a sustainable ...