As a rule, citizens appreciate local more than central government. This paper proposes new research agenda for multilevel trust studies by arguing that it is premature to believe citizen’s proximity officials definition trumps distance. in country-comparative studies, close attention needs be paid institutional quality analyses of trust. To put this argument work, closer investigation Sweden co...

An infinite binary sequence is deemed to be random if it has all definable properties that hold almost surely for the usual probability measure on the set of infinite binary sequences. There are only countably many such properties, so it would seem that the set of random sequences should have full measure. But in fact there might be no random sequences, because for all we know, there might be n...

The authors would like to thank Gustavo Crespi for helpful suggestion in the development of the econometric analysis. We would also like to thank

I explore the promise organization research offers for improved management practice and how, at present, it falls short. Using evidence-based medicine as an exemplar, I identify ways of closing the prevailing “research-practice gap”—the failure of organizations and managers to base practices on best available evidence. I close with guidance for researchers, educators, and managers for translati...

How do you manage, or even think seriously about, profitability in an online business? Traditionally you tracked profitability by product, but in the online world this may simply not be possible. The article looks at why this is so, and how the same factors which create the problem also create new opportunities. Learned Publishing (2002)15, 113–116 Alastair Dryburgh There is no such thing as a ...