In this paper an attempt is made to gain further insight into the environment–strategy– performance linkages. A framework is developed to relate managers’ perceptions of their market environment and competitive strategies to the (advanced) production technologies and human resource management (HRM) policies adopted by their firms. Data from 12 Dutch and 8 British companies in the chemical and f...

Waltz’s neorealist theories, while perhaps suitable for the systemic uses Waltz associated them with, have been often been misapplied to predict and analyze individual states’ foreign policies. This is not to say that neorealism gives no guidance to states’ foreign policies. On the contrary, even Waltz discusses foreign policy choices: the basic argument – that a bipolar world is fundamentally ...

In mainstream macroeconomics, the cross-country pattern of unemployment should reflect ‘natural’ rates (NAIRUs), which in turn are explained mainly by the rigidities imposed by labor market institutions and policies. While this view has framed most of the empirical work to date, the evidence so far is not very compelling. Recent work in the Keynesian tradition suggests that more attention shoul...

Increasingly users are seen as the weak link in the chain, when it comes to the security of corporate information. Should the users of computer systems act in any inappropriate or insecure manner, then they may put their employers in danger of financial losses, information degradation or litigation, and themselves in danger of dismissal or prosecution. This is a particularly important concern f...

As river basin authorities and national governments develop policies to achieve sustainable development outcomes, conflicting signals between existing policies are undermining cross-thematic integrative modes of policy planning. This raises fundamental questions over how coherent portfolios of policy interventions across vital themes can best be advanced and managed. Taking the Lake Chad Basin ...

Draft: please do not cite without permission. When poverty measures reflect the experiences of poor people, then this empowers those working to reduce poverty to do so more effectively and efficiently. The literature on Multidimensional Poverty Measures has surged forward in the last decade. This paper describes the broad directions of change, then presents a new and very simple measurement met...

The new classical macroeconomics is today certainly the most coherent, if not the dominant, school of macroeconomic thought. The pivotal document in its two decades of development is Robert Lucas’s 1976 paper, “Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique.” Lucas argued against the then reigning methods of evaluating the quantitative effects of economic policies on the grounds that the models used...

This research addresses two interrelated questions about direct democracy: How does direct democracy affect public policy? And why do citizens and interest groups sometimes pursue policy change through direct democracy? We study these questions by testing for differences between urban growth boundaries (UGBs) that were enacted by city councils and by direct democracy in a large sample of Califo...