This paper studies the impact of reservation for women on the performance of policy makers and on voters’ perceptions of this performance. Since the mid 1990’s, one third of Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only women could be elected to the position of chief. Village Councils are responsible for the provision of many local publi...

The interplay between cross-border externalities, international public goods and development assistance, and the relationship between this interplay and the conventional rationales for development assistance, will be a key problematic facing aid agencies in the next decade. This note sets out a conceptual framework for thinking through the problematic, and draws some tentative implications for ...

The supply chain management (SCM) consists of the integration of the business logistics management processes involving not only units within an enterprise but also across units belonging to both upstream and downstream partners, such as suppliers, customers, and logistics service providers. According to the council of logistics management (CLM, 1999), the set of activities to be managed include...

Mike Thelwall, Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton. Olga Goriunova, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. Farida Vis, Information School, University of Sheffield. Simon Faulkner, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. Anne Burns, Information School, University of Sheffield. Jim Aulich, Manchester School of Art,...

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Reciprocal customers may disproportionately improve the performance of markets for experience goods. Reciprocal customers reward (punish) …rms for providing good (bad) quality by upholding (terminating) the customer relation. This may induce …rms to provide good quality which, in turn, may induce a positive externality for nonreciprocal customers who would, in the absence of reciprocal types, f...

Transport Canada’s Dangerous Goods Directorate (TDG) data base of crashes involving a vehicle carrying dangerous goods shows 810 rollovers in 1,874 reported crashes from 1990 to 1998, and 83% of these involved highway tank trucks. TDG is therefore considering approaches to improve the rollover stability of tank trucks used for highway transportation of dangerous goods. TDG asked the Centre for ...

Online games increasingly sell virtual goods to generate real income. As a result, it is increasingly important to identify factors and theory of consumption values that affect intent to purchase virtual goods in online games. However, very little research has been devoted to the topic. This study is an empirical investigation of the factors and theory of consumption values that affect intent t...

People often consume non-durable goods in a way that seems inconsistent with preferences for smoothing consumption over time. We suggest that such patterns of consumption can be better explained if one takes into account the future utility flows generated by memorable consumption goods—goods, such as a honeymoon or a vacation, whose utility flow outlives their physical consumption. We consider ...

A generic model for the monetary flow in multi-level marketing schemes for virtual goods, so called incentive management systems, is introduced and analysed. It is shown that such schemes can in principle be fair, and it is argued that they can be viably realised if the value of the distributed good is positive. It is shown how the monetary incentive a buyer receives through the scheme can be p...