VOLUME 4(3) • 2009
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS TODAY: REINING IN FLEXIBILITY
Abstract. The paper was presented as a keynote lecture at the 10th anniversary of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) in April 2008. It surveys the trajectory of scholarly work on labor after 1945, from its initial emphasis on rights of industrial and socia..
HOW DID DECOUPLED BECOME COUPLED? INDIA’S MIRACLE GROWTH DROPS
ABSTRACT. Surpassing the decoupling expectation, the global economic crisis has affected the Indian economy through various channels. Indeed, this brief survey of the effects of crisis suggests that India’s financial and real sectors are closely integrated with the global financial and export m..
THE ENHANCED ROLE OF THE STATE IN CHINA’S INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
ABSTRACT. The role of the State, far from being withering out, is in fact massive, dominant, and crucial to China’s industrial development in the XXI century. Moreover, it has been strengthened by the successful implementation of the “keep the big dump the small” policy, which in turn is consis..
BENCHMARKING IN PRACTICE
ABSTRACT. This paper examines a very important management tool: benchmarking, and focuses on a company which is being examined for the suitability of benchmarking with another, XYZ. The basic assumption is that XYZ has a defect rate that is slightly better than that of the company in question. The p..
FACTORS STIMULATING CORPORATE CRIME IN MALAYSIA
ABSTRACT. Building on the perception of both existing and potential investors in one of the largest cities in East Malaysia – Kuching, this study aims to identify the factors that appear to stimulate corporate criminal activity in organizations. A survey was carried out by distributing questionnaire..
PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE: DEFINITION, CLASSIFICATION AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES
ABSTRACT. Beginning from the end of the 1980s, many studies analysing the relationship between infrastructure endowment and economic development have been realised. A general consensus is achieved around the idea that basic infrastructure facilities are important features related to economic perform..
GOOD AND BAD CAPITALISM • RE-THINKING VALUE, HUMAN NEEDS, AND THE AIMS OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ABSTRACT. The world is experiencing a twofold crisis. On the one hand, the global, virtualized economy is collapsing and, in its fall, it is bringing down significant sections of the real economy. On the other hand, the environmental collapse of the planet is also marching on, and there is no clear ..
DO GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS DETERMINE LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of geographic characteristics on the local economic development. There are two important reasons related to that objective. First, study on this topic in the caseIndonesia is rather limited, especially in the field of local ec..
THE IMPORTANCE OF USING BANK SUPERVISION AND REGULATION TO PROMOTE MARKET DISCIPLINE OF BANKS
ABSTRACT. Rochet studies how one might protect central banks while preserving the flexibility of the current interbank market. Landier and Ueda introduce the benchmark Modigliani-Miller Framework, assume no scope for debt renegotiation and compares several restructuring options under fixed rest..
THE POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF CORPORATE CRIME LEGISLATION
ABSTRACT. Hamdani and Klement demonstrate that civil penalties or the pervasiveness standard could discourage wrongdoing more effectively than the threat of going out of business under the existing regime of entity liability. According to Richardson, a serious governance gap currently exists in..
FISCAL PROJECTIONS IN BANKING NETWORK
Abstract. This paper is concerned with one aspect of the motion of financial institution slumps, namely the design of the financial systems which may be used by the authorities in refundizing financial institutions. When a substantial part of the financial institution network is insolvent, these que..
BRAND ENERGY AS AN INNOVATIVE IDEA
Abstract. The thinking and language of marqueing is still largely tied to consumer products and does not work well for service industries. A more appropriate idea of the marque relates to the experience of products/ services/suppliers. Brand energy is an idea that fuses the idea of value creation an..