This paper investigates the relationship between state and business in the context of structural and institutional transformations in Indonesia following the collapse of the New Order regime in 1998. Since 1998, Indonesia has embarked on a shift from an authoritarian to democratic polity and from a centralised to a decentralised system of governance, transforming the country into the third larg...

Abstract The German system of public sector employment (including civil servants and employees) qualifies as a classical European continental service model moulded in traditional forms Weberian bureaucracy. Its features include career-based with entry based on levels formal qualification. Coordinated by legal frames centralised collective bargaining, the is, at same time, decentralised flexible...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of bureaucratic structure on the employee engagement (ee). our study extends previous researches by considering bureaucracy from two points of view: enabling versus hindering. we study the extent to which these two types of bureaucracy are related to the two forms of employee engagement: organizational (oe) and work engagement (we). the vie...

Fraudulent practices among Nigerians are major challenges facing the development of the country. The federal government has been making several efforts by setting up many anti corruption institutions to reduce cases of fraud and other economic crimes but the efforts seemed not to have been effective. This study attempts to look at the relevance of forensic accounting in the effective reduction ...

Exploiting a unique data set containing transactions data from a panel of 769 Chinese stateowned enterprises between 1980 and 1989, this paper tests microeconomic implications of a pervasive form of corruption—official diversion of under-priced, in-plan goods to the market. Corruption has the predicted effects on resource allocation. Official under-pricing of in-plan goods, which lowers the mar...