United States fisheries are managed by regional councils. Fishermen can participate in fisheries managed by multiple councils, and effort controls in one region could lead to effort leakage into another. Using difference-in-differences, we test for leakage across regional fisheries boundaries for a catch share program in New England. We find evidence that the New England groundfish sector progr...

The Determinants of Firm Performance: Unions, Works Councils, and Employee Involvement/High Performance Work Practices Drawing on evidence from the United States and Germany, this paper offers a survey of the effects of worker representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm performance. The focus is on the growing links between these two historically separate...

In this paper we take a system theoretic perspective to the process of security risk identification in the context of city councils. Based on this approach, we construct a framework that helps to identify risks. We analyze why this methodological framework is suitable for the risk identification process. Research in fifty Flemish city councils reveals the usefulness of our approach of combining...

As I get older, my hearing is getting better and I am listening in different ways, especially to patients. I search for the patient voice in my office practice, in research studies and in health reform initiatives. The patient voice is getting louder and is changing the culture of medicine. I like the shorthand definition of culture as “the way we do things around here.” It is no longer busines...

Regional councils manage United States fisheries. Fishermen can participate in fisheries managed by multiple councils, and effort controls in one region could lead to effort leakage into another. Theoretical modeling demonstrates that positive, negative, and no leakage are possible. Using difference-in-differences, we test for leakage across regional boundaries for a catch share program in New ...

Introduction Increasingly, legislative requirements are being placed on councils and businesses to incorporate sustainability into their activities. However, it is inherently difficult to assess the sustainability of activities and there are few tools to do this. It is therefore difficult to understand if an individual project contributes to broad sustainability objectives or if it incorporates...

We study favoritism in public procurement of cleaning service contracts in Sweden 1990-1998. Cleaning services are a low-tech, clearly defined product with easy entry and no ex-ante quality differences. We study a period where the law allowed municipalities high degrees of freedom in choosing the winner. In our data, the lowest bid does not win 61% of the time, and municipalities pay on average...

Judgment aggregation (JA) studies how to aggregate individual judgments to form collective decisions. Examples are expert panels, legal courts, boards, and councils. The problems investigated in this new field are relevant and common to many situations. Nevertheless, the existing procedures are idealized and, likewise the related problems of preference aggregation in social choice theory, the f...