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Watts, Jennifer Mary. "The institutional context for temporary staffing : a European cross-national comparative approach." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-institutional-context-for-temporary-staffing-a-european-crossnational-comparative-approach(894fb34b-64ab-4649-89d3-7010894f15e6).html.
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Since the early 1990s the temporary staffing industry experienced rapid growth in many areas of Europe, although the extent and rate of this growth varied across the continent. The existing literature on labour market intermediaries and the temporary staffing industry fail to adequately address the importance of national institutional arrangements. This thesis addresses the research lacuna by providing a comparative study of temporary staffing industries in three different political-economic contexts: the United Kingdom, Germany and the Czech Republic. This contributes to a greater understanding of the role of the temporary staffing industry in each country, how it is structured, and the key institutions involved. These three case studies profile the size and characteristics of each temporary staffing industry but also discuss the key institutions present in each case, and the relationships which drive or restrict its change. This thesis includes analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data to provide a detailed picture of each national temporary staffing industry. The research reveals three nationally distinctive formations of the temporary staffing industry within the context of the European Union. While the UK has the largest temporary staffing industry in Europe, it remains highly fragmented. With an established presence in many sectors of the labour market the industry seeks to increase its presence in professional occupations, and its collaboration with public employment services. While the temporary staffing industry in Germany has experienced significant growth since 2003, resistance remains from the trade unions against the use of temporary agency work, and the state remains greatly involved in determining working conditions. The presence of collective bargaining between the trade unions and trade associations remains a key relationship in this system. The temporary staffing industry in the Czech Republic is still in the early stages of growth and as such regulations are still being formulated, and agencies are still establishing branch networks in an environment where a large number of informal agencies are already present. While temporary staffing agencies and trade associations remain active in pursuing growth for the temporary staffing industry, the extent to which these changes took place varied between countries. This thesis argues the form of each national temporary staffing industry is a reflection of the complex historical, and contemporary, national institutional arrangements, and as such, its form and role varies.
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SOTTINI, ANDREA CARLO MARIA. "Meccanismi imprenditoriali per navigare attraverso i vincoli istituzionali." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/117148.
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La tesi investiga il ruolo che gli imprenditori e gli intermediari svolgono nell’influenzare il contesto istituzionale in cui sorgono opportunità di business. In particolare, la tesi contribuisce all'istituzionalismo e alla ricerca sull'imprenditorialità svelando i meccanismi che favoriscono il fare impresa sia nei paesi sviluppati che in quelli in via di sviluppo.
Questo lavoro partecipa al dibattito accademico con tre articoli: rispettivamente, un articolo concettuale e due studi empirici e qualitativi. Il primo studio intitolato “Misconducting behaviors and institutional divergence in entrepreneurial endeavors” offre un modello teorico volto a spiegare come e perché gli imprenditori divergono dal contesto istituzionale legale e legittimo. Il secondo paper, dal titolo “Unveiling mechanisms to achieve institutional support against COVID-19 restrictions: evidence from Italy”, partecipa al dialogo tra istituzionalismo e imprenditorialità in contesti di crisi, indagando come le microimprese italiane durante la pandemia di COVID-19 hanno ottenuto supporto istituzionale informale per continuare le loro attività di business. Il terzo paper, intitolato “Orchestrating inclusive transformation: evidence from social intermediaries in sub-Saharan Africa” contribuisce alla ricerca sul ruolo degli intermediari nella promozione dell'imprenditorialità in contesti caratterizzati da scarso o assente supporto istituzionale.
In generale, i risultati documentano che imprenditori e intermediari formano strutture istituzionali per incoraggiare un adattamento del contesto sociale al fine di creare condizioni favorevoli per lo svolgimento delle loro attività.The thesis focuses on the role entrepreneurs and intermediaries play in shaping institutions upon which business opportunities arise. Specifically, the thesis contributes to institutionalism and entrepreneurship research by unveiling the mechanisms enabling entrepreneurial endeavors in both developed and developing countries. This work participates in such academic debate with three papers: respectively, a conceptual article, and two empirical, qualitative studies. The first study named “Misconducting behaviors and institutional divergence in entrepreneurial endeavors” offers a theoretical model aimed to explain how and why entrepreneurs diverge from legal and legitimate institutional setting. The second paper, titled “Unveiling mechanisms to achieve institutional support against COVID-19 restrictions: evidence from Italy”, participates to the dialogue between institutionalism and entrepreneurship within crisis contexts, investigating how micro-small entrepreneurs in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic gained informal institutional support to run their business activities. The third paper, named “Orchestrating inclusive transformation: evidence from social intermediaries in sub-Saharan Africa” contributes to research on the role of intermediaries to promoting entrepreneurship in context characterized by poor or absent institutional support. In general, the findings document that entrepreneurs and intermediaries form institutional structures to find a fit with the expected social context in order to create favorable conditions to pursue their activities.
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Nalukenge, Imelda Kibirige. "Impact of lending relationships on transaction costs incurred by financial intermediaries: case study in Central Ohio." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1068473959.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 168 p.; also includes graphics. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Larry Libby, Dept. of Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-168).
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Badiei, Farzaneh [Verfasser], and Anne van [Akademischer Betreuer] Aaken. "The Institutional Design of B2B Online Market Intermediaries’ Dispute Resolution: Its Promises and Pitfalls / Farzaneh Badiei ; Betreuer: Anne van Aaken." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1124155449/34.
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Schomers, Sarah [Verfasser]. "Intermediaries within the governance structures of payments for ecosystem services : cost-effectiveness and environmental effectiveness from an institutional economic perspective / Sarah Daniela Schomers." Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1179909356/34.
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Schomers, Sarah Daniela [Verfasser]. "Intermediaries within the governance structures of payments for ecosystem services : cost-effectiveness and environmental effectiveness from an institutional economic perspective / Sarah Daniela Schomers." Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1179909356/34.
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Cheng, Wai. "Development without slums : institutions, intermediaries and grassroots politics in urban China." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3244/.
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This thesis studies the institutional foundations and micro-mechanisms by which social order is regulated and public goods are delivered in China’s urban grassroots communities. This study is motivated by the seemingly deviant phenomenon that massive internal migration and rapid urbanisation during China’s market reforms have not resulted in chaotic and familiar third world urban diseases. Instead, relatively governed, less contentious, highly dynamic yet ultimately soft migrant enclaves contrast sharply with what often feature most developing countries. Based on the case studies of four urban villages – which categorically housed the majority of China’s 274 million rural migrants – I trace the interplay among the remaining socialist institutions, dominant market forces and various intermediaries in managing migrant contestation and serving state functions. I consider both objective criteria and migrants’ perceptions to explain why China’s migrant enclaves demonstrate distinct characteristics compared with the migrant enclaves in many developing countries. I also consider why China’s migrant enclaves share similar patterns of transformation with its formal cities. The findings contest the conventional approaches that are used to explain China’s structural stability and territorial cohesion despite local disturbances and conflicts, which are mainly attributable to the authoritarian regime, state corporatism or an underdeveloped civil society. Although China’s land, danwei and hukou systems are nationally configured, I argue that these institutions are also conducive to protecting an intermediate realm that comprises residential committees, joint-stock companies and clan associations by providing a safety valve and nurturing localised engagements. I then examine how these intermediaries have adopted coercion, patronage and exit-point mechanisms to deliver public goods, enforce communal order and broker urban renewal through less coercive and predatory means. I further assess the ways in which these engaging but parochial, resourceful but dependent, and exclusive rather than inclusive intermediaries have mediated the boundaries between despotic power and infrastructural power and among state agenda, market forces and grassroots interests. This thesis thus re-visits China’s authoritarian resilience concerning not only how migrant contestation is managed but also what institutions and mechanisms are most effective to articulate multiple interests and ensure social compliance during the processes of urbanisation and decentralisation in the absence of electoral politics.
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Cocco, Ludovico Maria <1992>. "Fostering the entrepreneurial development through the bankruptcy institution: an empirical approach for European countries." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18474.
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This thesis proposes a comprehensive study of the bankruptcy issue, highlighting the forces that, at diverse levels, guide the restructuring process of insolvent firms in turn conditioning economic activities. A deep understanding of the bankruptcy topic allows ex-post in discerning the factors that facilitate the recovery process of defaulted firms, and ex-ante in developing preventive mechanisms for strengthening the economic fabric and thus prompt the economic growth. Delving into financial and into law and economics literature, the three chapters of this thesis analyse the bankruptcy topic from diverse corners of investigation. Chapter I assesses how creditors of insolvent firms address the causes of firm’s default complementarily to financial and accounting figures for their decision on the debt restructuring plan, thus determining firm’s exit way from the bankruptcy procedure, i.e. reorganization, acquisition or liquidation. Chapter II, deepening at the individual level of the actor in charge of enforcing the bankruptcy law, the judge, investigates how the individual characteristics of lay judges affect the financial performance of the bankruptcy procedures they supervise in terms of debt recovery rates. Chapter III, through a cross-country analysis of bankruptcy codes and developing an original set of legal indexes, individuates the distinct normative provisions of reorganization and of liquidation procedures that concur in jointly stimulating entrepreneurial growth and credit supply by financial institutions. The results of this dissertation demonstrate how the several factors guiding the bankruptcy process combine, determining the likelihood for successful firm and debt restructuring. Moreover, they confirm as bankruptcy law conforms as an effective tool of economic policy to enhance economic growth. The findings may thus support the diverse actors involved in the insolvency affairs for a more efficient as well as effective conduct of the restructuring process, hence favouring the prospects for adequate settlements to firm’s insolvency, and policymakers for the optimization of bankruptcy codes to strengthen the economic and production systems and thus prompt economic growth. This thesis contributes to the financial and to the law and economics literature developing a comprehensive approach for the study of the bankruptcy topic, illustrating the factors that guide the bankruptcy issue and suggesting the means for tackling it.
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Corrocher, Piero <1997>. "Relationship lending and the role of mutual guarantee institutions for SME access to finance around the COVID-19 pandemic in the Veneto region." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/19983.
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Due to some characteristics such as information opaqueness and under-collateralization, financial institutions consider lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) riskier than lending to large companies. As a consequence, SMEs are more likely to face credit availability issues. This work aims to discuss how small businesses may improve their access to bank financing. On the one hand, it revises some literature about lending technologies available for banks when lending to SMEs (focusing on relationship lending) and about the role of mutual guarantee institutions with respect to SME access to finance. On the other hand, it investigates the coexistence of relationship lending and mutual guarantee institutions by examining the answers of a group of enterprises which are members of “Cofidi Veneziano” to questionnaires concerning their access to finance. The purpose of this study is to be relevant especially with respect to the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, since for some enterprises answers have been collected both before and after its spread.
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Guirao, Soro Gloria. "¿Salir a triunfar? Las migraciones de los artistas y los intermediarios del arte contemporáneo españoles en la Unión Europea (1986-2018)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673406.
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Esta tesis estudia las migraciones de los artistas y de los intermediarios del arte contemporáneo españoles en la Unión Europea desde 1986. Se interesa por los efectos de la globalización del arte en la emergencia de un espacio artístico europeo unificado y en la implantación de un nuevo modelo profesional internacionalizado en el sector español del arte contemporáneo. La movilidad internacional de los participantes en la escena artística española ha sido facilitada por el régimen de libre circulación de ciudadanos entre países miembros de la Unión Europea y por los numerosos dispositivos institucionales de promoción de la movilidad que se dirigen específicamente a los jóvenes y a los profesionales del sector cultural. La tesis defendida en este trabajo es que la migración desde España hacia un centro artístico europeo puede ser considerada una forma de gestionar la incertidumbre de la carrera en el mundo del arte contemporáneo globalizado.
Las técnicas cualitativas de recogida y análisis de datos empleadas en esta investigación han permitido dar cuenta de las motivaciones para migrar de los artistas y los intermediarios del arte contemporáneo españoles, así como de sus preferencias de destino y de sus vías de inserción en una nueva escena artística en el extranjero. La estrategia de gestión de la incertidumbre de la carrera en el mundo del arte y de la migración aparece fuertemente condicionada por las características sociales de los individuos y por sus experiencias de socialización. Éstas influyen en la definición y en la puesta en marcha del proyecto de desarrollo profesional en el extranjero, desde la elección de la ciudad de destino hasta el recurso a los dispositivos de promoción de la movilidad internacional para facilitar la salida de España y la inserción en la nueva escena artística. Al integrar la dimensión espacial en el estudio de las trayectorias de profesionalización y de acceso al reconocimiento artístico, esta tesis indaga en el papel de la migración en el proceso de internacionalización de las carreras de los artistas e intermediarios españoles en el mundo del arte contemporáneo globalizado.
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Håkansson, Caroline, and Kristin Salu. "Sustainability in the European Union : The Role of Financial Development in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Performance." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Nationalekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-176781.
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This thesis addresses the relationship between financial development and CSR performance, based on countries within the EU. The main objective of this thesis is to critically analyse and discuss the impact of financial development on CSR performance, through using ESG performance as a proxy. Additionally, this study aims at analysing the inclusion of institutional factors when examining the relationship. While the issue of how financial development impacts individual sustainability dimensions is quite well-researched, only one study is found to examine the precise relationship between financial development and ESG performance, concluding a positive linkage in Asia. No similar study is found in the region of the EU. We find the relationship to be complex, where various channels of influence are identified when examining ESG dimensions separately. To examine this relationship, we used panel data regression analysis, based on country level data for EU’s individual member states. Our findings show a complex relationship, implying that financial development has various impacts on ESG performance and varies throughout the range of financial development. This is in contrast to previous empirical research regarding the relationship, concluding an overall positive impact. This study provides no evidence that institutional factors affect the relationship between financial development and ESG performance, but argues for the importance of institutional inclusion, due to the identified influence on ESG practices through channels such as governing laws, regulations, norms and culture. Finally, financial development is concluded as an important catalyst to promote ESG performance within the EU. When suggesting any policy implementation, it is important to keep in mind that different countries within the EU may have different needs regarding the most efficient approach to increase ESG.
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Janssen, M., Vishanth J. P. Weerakkody, Elvira Ismagilova, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, and Zahir Irani. "A framework for analysing blockchain technology adoption: Integrating institutional, market and technical factors." 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17358.
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The adoption of blockchain technologies require the consideration of a broad range of factors, over and above the predominantly technology focus of most current work. Whilst scholarly literature on blockchain technology is only beginning to emerge, majority are focused on the technicalities of the technology and tend to ignore the organizational complexities of adopting the technology. Drawing from a focused review of literature, this paper proposed a conceptual framework for adoption of blockchain technology capturing the complex relationships between institutional, market and technical factors. The framework highlights that varying outcomes are possible, and the change process is focal as this shapes the form blockchain applications take. Factors presented in the framework (institutional, market and technical) interact and mutually influence each other. The proposed framework can be used by organisations as a reference point for adopting blockchain applications and by scholars to expand, refine and evaluate research into blockchain technology.
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Bond, Phillip. "Joint liability and the structure of financial intermediaries /." 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9934027.
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Dias, Vânia Raquel Fernandes. "Garantia bancária autónoma. Operação bancária." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/28326.
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Banking operations are increasingly recurrent in our daily lives and this is justified by the role that credit institutions play in the world economy as financial intermediaries. Assets, liabilities and equity are the items that make up the balance sheet structure of these institutions. However, off-balance sheet accounts are the off-balance-sheet accounts, where collateral is recorded because they do not place the credit institution in a creditor or debtor position, such as: bail, mortgage and collateral. Despite of, like the mutual bank the autonomous guarantee includes all the elements that constitute the concept of the latter, such as interest, commissions, capital, risk, trust and (counter) guarantee. So, as a credit right of the institution, the autonomous guarantee should also be included on the asset side of the bank balance sheet, to be part of a genuine credit granting operation. Finally, we called guarantee to the autonomous guarantee just because the bank may be called upon to fulfill the obligation to which the debtor-payer was bound with his assets.As operações bancárias são cada vez mais recorrentes no nosso quotidiano e isso é justificado pelo papel que as instituições de crédito desempenham na economia mundial enquanto intermediárias financeiras. O ativo, o passivo e os capitais próprios são as rubricas que compõem a estrutura de balanço destas instituições. Todavia, fora da folha de balanço dos bancos ficam as contas extrapatrimoniais, nas quais são registadas as garantias pelo facto de não colocarem a instituição de crédito numa posição de credora ou de devedora, tais como: a fiança, a hipoteca e o aval. Não obstante, a garantia autónoma, à semelhança do mútuo bancário, é dotada de todos os elementos que constituem o conceito deste último, tais como: os juros, as comissões, o capital, o risco, a confiança e a (contra)garantia. E, como tal, também a garantia autónoma, enquanto direito de crédito da instituição, deveria figurar no lado do ativo do balanço bancário, consubstanciando, deste modo, uma verdadeira operação de concessão de crédito. Em suma, a garantia autónoma apenas é intitulada de garantia porque o banco pode ser interpelado a cumprir a obrigação a que o devedor-ordenante estava vinculado, com o seu património.
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Frank, Ashley Gavin. "The stock market and South Africa's economic development." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2501.
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Financial liberalisation, through increasing investment as well as the average productivity of capital, should stimulate economic growth, or so the theory goes. Bank lending unfortunately suffers adverse selection and moral hazard effects, to which the establishment and expansion of stock markets has been offered as a remedy. However, research from developing country stock markets have shown that in many cases these markets did not complement the effects of credit market liberalisation but in rather important aspects subverted them. Countries that implemented credit market liberalisation and raised real interest rates only increased the price of debt capital rather than all capital. This caused a share price boom in many of them. When the price of equity capital fell it seriously undermined and indeed allowed large private corporations to skip altogether the main channel of high interest rates through which the theoretical McKinnon-Shaw effects were to operate.
This study asks the research question of what effect the expansion of the South African stock exchange has had for its economic development. It makes use of a general empirical model to explain the relationship between financial development and real output. The model comprises indicators for growth, banking system development, stock market volatility; and, stock market development through a conglomerate index that accounts for market size, liquidity and integration with world capital markets. Quarterly data from 1989 to 2001 is analysed based on the null hypothesis that, as far as financial architecture is concerned, the development of the JSE Securities Exchange has stimulated the country's economic growth.
This study found a negative and statistically significant relation between stock market development and economic growth. It suggests that while the JSE Securities Exchange is a relatively large stock market it is the presence of thin trading that prevents the proposed benefits of market development from accruing to the economy. Thus the hypothesis is rejected. However, since the only stable cointegrating vector is between growth and banking sector development, it recommends that by expanding their universal banking functions, the present banking structure, though oligopolistic, may be better suited to act as a catalyst for growth.Business Management
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