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Between 2000 and 2010, the Canadian federal government disbursed $716 893 740 in research grants through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)'s Research Partnerships Programs. This is only one branch, of one agency, in the immense bureaucracy of government funding. This study will examine the social networks which resulted from these research grants. Over this eleven...
This paper examines the impacts of informal and formal institutions on the efficiency of credit resource allocation in the emerging market from the perspective of political connections and marketization. Based on the data of non-state owned listed companies in China, we find that as an informal institution, Political relationship helps companies to obtain more long-term loans. However, from a social...
Many companies have taken the recent step of setting up an independent decision-making system, often called an 'IT Investment Committee', in order to maximize the performance of their IT investments. However, merely organizing such a committee in itself might not ensure good investment performance, owing to conflicts of interest or discord among its members. In this study, it was reviewed which characteristics...
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