We examine the motivations for forming regulatory agencies and the features that are critical for their success. Governments create independent regulatory agencies to address two fundamental problems in the control of public utilities, namely the dampening effect that politics has on investment and the value of specialized knowledge. Agencies are more effective in stimulating investment if they...

Japan is often characterized as a developmental state, i.e., a state with a strong and autonomous bureaucratic leadership that directs the economy toward achieving developmental goals. This study challenges the developmental state model, arguing that the once-powerful Japanese bureaucracy has lost much of its authority and is no longer autonomous from societal forces. By focusing on the growing...

Expectations for state leadership in health reform have never been higher. States are thought to function as "laboratories of democracy," but they do not fulfill this role effectively because insufficient attention is paid to experimentation and knowledge translation. Congressional proposals to encourage state action cover too narrow a span of state health policy, do not provide states with suf...

this study has two main purposes including examining the structural model of leadership stereotype, leadership competency, and achievement motivation in leadership role and investigating the moderating effects of gender on the overall model. using a sample of 303 extension agents from three jihad-e-agriculture organizations of tehran, kermanshah, and khorasan razavi provinces in iran, we conduc...

the purpose of this study is investigate the relationship between consequences of leadership and transformational leadership style in presidents of universities and institutes of tehran, 30 presidents in tehran and 102 raters (subordination of presidents) response to third edition of multifactor leadership questionnaire mlq (leader and rater version). the data were analyzed taking in to conside...

This research aimed to examine the relationship between collaborative management, leadership, and customary authority by Ondoafi in their strategic decision-making process as traditional leaders government figures. Information analysis was then conducted descriptively with an ethnographic basis normative analysis, using representative from government, traditions, youth, women, religion, partici...

Title of Dissertation: IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP ON CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE GROUPS Steven Lawrence Johnson, Doctor of Philosophy in Information System Directed by: Associate Professor Samer Faraj, McGill University; Professor Hank Lucas, Department of Decision, Operations & Information Technologies Online groups formed by volunteer members are increasingly recognized as sources of innovati...

Secret Handshakes are well-established cryptographic primitives that help two mistrusting users to establish initial trust by proving and verifying possession of given properties, such as group membership. All the Secret Handshake schemes to date assume the existence of a single, centralized Certification Authority (CA). We challenge this assumption and create the first Secret Handshake scheme ...

the purpose of this quantitative correlation study was to determine the extent to which the role of leadership style preferences correlate with employee satisfaction with supervision among employees and leaders of an iranian oil company. this study measured preferences for each of five common leadership styles and examined correlations with measures of employee satisfaction. the styles studied ...

transcendental leadership is a new paradigm in management and leadership that is the best way to deal with today dynamic, changing and turbulent environments. transcendent leaders make the ethical foundation of organizations and have strategic leads. these leaders look at the organizations as a whole that lead others, themselves and the organization. a transcendental leader is a strategic leade...