Addressing academic researcher priorities through science and technology entrepreneurship education

The Journal of Technology Transfer - A key feature of the movement to create more entrepreneurial universities is incentivizing researchers to move discoveries beyond the laboratory and into...     

Arbitration and Incentives: How to Preclude the Chilling Effect?

We seek to establish a mechanism for an arbitrator, as a set of rules used to control parties' incentives. We assume that the arbitrator is allowed to commit himself to a decision rule ex ante. The results show that the parties' messages reveal their private information if the costs of lie are high enough and if the decision rule is random. The decision rule described can apply to conventional arbitration and to final-offer arbitration.     

Global Birthright Citizenship Laws: How Inclusive?

Netherlands International Law Review - The principal way in which formal citizenship status is acquired is on the basis of birth, whether by descent (ius sanguinis) or territory of birth (ius...     

Maturité organisationnelle des organisations publiques et management des connaissances

Mass retirements from the public service and non‐renewal of roughly half the workforce create challenges both for the intergenerational transfer of knowledge and knowledge management more generally. This article reviews the literature on organizational learning, learning organizations and intelligent organizations, concluding that these concepts are not well linked together. It reports on findings from interviews with 50 executives from the Quebec public service, which create a portrait of knowledge management and transfer practices and how they could be improved. The article then develops a model of organizational maturity in five phases, based on these findings, linking the concepts of organizational learning, learning organizations and intelligent organizations.     

Demand for civil trials and court congestion

This paper examines interactions between how congested courts are, whether potential plaintiffs decide to sue, and whether potential defendants choose to engage in actions that harm potential plaintiffs. We conclude that in the presence of congestion standard delay reduction efforts (higher filing costs, lower damage awards, out-of-court settlement, greater court capacity) may not be effective.     

Managing the news in Africa

The presence of Chinese multinational corporations on the global stage is changing the landscape of international business and politics. Western firms, which once had virtually undisputed command over international resources, are now being challenged by emerging country corporations, particularly from China.     

Horizontal coordination in cooperative federalism: The purpose of ministerial conferences in Germany

ABSTRACT

Intergovernmental councils in Germany comprise 18 sectoral ministerial conferences and the prime ministerial conference as peak organization. They complement the Bundesrat as institutions of Intergovernmental Relations in the German system of cooperative federalism, dealing with matters of shared rule as well as self-rule. Based on expert interviews among ministerial bureaucrats, this contribution finds that contrary to conventional wisdom, vertical influence and autonomy protection are not their main purpose. Rather, they serve primarily information exchange and coordination. Still, the emphasis on either influence and autonomy protection or coordination and information as well as the directions of interaction vary across policy sectors. We further investigate constitutional allocation of power and party political composition as determinants on the specific purpose of ministerial conferences. The findings suggest that the allocation of power is more important than party political composition in explaining variation between sectoral ministerial conferences.     

Salience‐Based Congruence Between Parties & their Voters: The Swiss Case

Policy congruence between parties and their voters is a prerequisite for the latter's representation. Related research typically focuses on the left‐right dimension. We contribute to this literature by conceiving the alignment between citizens and political elites as congruence on issues that individual citizens consider important (salience‐based congruence). Furthermore, we approach salience from the citizen's perspective and measure it at the individual level. Based on data from the Swiss Election Study (2007), we demonstrate that the assessment of party representation changes once we take salience into account. Policy congruence on salient issues is high and niche parties perform better than mainstream parties. Our arguments and findings about the role personal issue salience plays at the individual and party levels have important repercussions for contemporary debates on representation and policy congruence.     

Significant Predictors of Soccer Players’ Moral Functioning from Components of Contextual Injustice, Sensitivity to Injustice and Moral Atmosphere

This study analysed the effects of contextual injustice on the moral functioning of soccer players with two goals: (1) to identify the factors of contextual injustice, moral atmosphere and sensitivity to injustice that significantly predict moral functioning and (2) to test the hypothesis that sensitivity to injustice has an effect only in unjust contexts. Three hundred players (from 16 to 40 years old) participated in the study. The analyses indicated a negative and significant effect of contextual injustice on moral functioning. Sensitivity to injustice was, like moral atmosphere, one of the best predictors of moral functioning. Moreover, sensitivity to injustice was a significant predictor of moral functioning in both just and unjust contexts.     

Site‐, Technique‐, and Time‐Related Aspects of the Postmortem Redistribution of Diazepam,Methadone, Morphine,and their Metabolites: Interest of Popliteal Vein Blood Sampling

Sampling site, technique, and time influence postmortem drug concentrations. In 57 cases, we studied drug concentration differences as follows: subclavian vein‐dissection/clamping versus blind stick, femoral vein‐dissection/clamping versus blind stick, right cardiac chamber, and popliteal vein‐dissection and clamping only. Cases were distributed in group #1 (all cases with both techniques), group #2 (dissection/clamping), and group #3 (blind stick). Sampled drugs were diazepam, methadone, morphine, and their metabolites. To assess PMR, mean concentrations and ratios were calculated for each group. Time‐dependent variations of blood concentrations and ratios were also assessed. Results indicate that site, method, and time may influence postmortem distribution interpretation in different ways. Popliteal blood seems less subject to PMR. In conclusion, our study is the first to evaluate concurrently three main aspects of PMR and confirms that the popliteal vein may represent a site that is more resistant to the changes seen as a result of PMR.