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Public environmental complaints and regulatory intensity
No full textPublic complaints are increasingly employed as a governance tool to supplement environmental enforcement, yet empirical evidence on how regulators respond to such bottom-up signals remains limited. This paper examines the impact of environmental complaints on the allocation and intensity of on-site inspections in Jiangsu Province, China. Employing a local projection estimator, we show that firms receiving complaints within a given month experience a 13.92 percentage point increase in the likelihood of an on-site inspection in the same month, with effects persisting over the next two months. Contrary to concerns about regulatory crowd-out, public complaints complement existing enforcement efforts and even prompt additional inspections initiated by local regulators. Moreover, complaint-triggered inspections are at least as effective as routine inspections in identifying violations and are associated with higher penalty amounts. These findings underscore the broader value of citizen engagement in enhancing regulatory effectiveness
Public environmental complaints and regulatory intensity
No full textPublic complaints are increasingly employed as a governance tool to supplement environmental enforcement, yet empirical evidence on how regulators respond to such bottom-up signals remains limited. This paper examines the impact of environmental complaints on the allocation and intensity of on-site inspections in Jiangsu Province, China. Employing a local projection estimator, we show that firms receiving complaints within a given month experience a 13.92 percentage point increase in the likelihood of an on-site inspection in the same month, with effects persisting over the next two months. Contrary to concerns about regulatory crowd-out, public complaints complement existing enforcement efforts and even prompt additional inspections initiated by local regulators. Moreover, complaint-triggered inspections are at least as effective as routine inspections in identifying violations and are associated with higher penalty amounts. These findings underscore the broader value of citizen engagement in enhancing regulatory effectiveness
Adaptive controller design and power loss analysis of resistive and inductive cell balancing during static, charging, and discharging mode
No full textA key feature of a battery management system is cell balancing for series-connected lithium-ion cells. Numerous cell balancing methods have been studied in the literature and are categorised into two categories: active and passive. The cheapest and simplest method of cell balancing without complex management is passive cell balancing, although it wastes energy through heat generation and leaves room for overcharge and discharge owing to a lack of control. There are many active cell balancing topologies available, but the one that is being presented is based on a single inductor, which has the advantages of requiring the fewest possible components, being inexpensive, being tiny, and having high efficiency and quick cell balancing speed. The fundamental resistor cell balancing technique is also implemented. The battery pack is made up of four series-connected cells. To test the accuracy of the balancing topology, each cell has a unique initial SOC condition. Two cases and three operating modes-static, charging, and discharging-have been tested. The balance time and switching frequency are both fixed, and power loss calculations are performed to compare the effectiveness of the two approaches
Compounding and complicating feelings of justice:LFOs and legal legitimacy in Georgia, Minnesota, and Washington State
No full textLegal financial obligations (LFOs) have become a significant element of the US criminal legal system, imposing fines and fees that disproportionately impact low-income individuals and perpetuate cycles of poverty, surveillance, and punishment. This study extends recent work that shows how LFOs erode trust in the legal system by examining this relationship through the lens of jurisdictional variation in penal practices. Drawing on 181 semi-structured interviews collected from individuals with LFO debt across Georgia, Minnesota, and Washington State as part of the Multi-State Study of Monetary Sanctions, we uncover how experiences with LFOs lead to perceptions of injustice. We identified three penal practices that shape an individuals’ belief that the legal system is fair and just: (1) having to pay LFOs on top of serving time in prison, jail, or under community supervision; (2) being charged LFOs in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously; and (3) the use of public–private partnerships to administer penal services. Our findings highlight critical implications for legal legitimacy and LFOs and propose avenues for future research and policy reform aimed at addressing the inequities inherent in the system of monetary sanctions.</p
Managerial job security and firm diversification
No full textWe analyze the effects of managerial job security on firm diversification. Our results indicate that enacting legal protection for managers’ employment is conducive to less corporate diversification. Our findings suggest that, in relation to managerial entrenchment and empire-building theories, hedging against employment risk is more likely to be the primary factor for managers when deciding to conduct firm diversification. Consistent with the explanation of agency theory in relation to firm diversification, we also document that refocusing firms increase firm value after enacting the implied-contract exception. The incremental firm value likely reflects the improved efficiency of capital allocation across divisions, as we find that firms increase the efficiency of their capital allocation after the adoption of the law
The Tacit Pull of Fit:Accounting’s Mundane Objects and the Everyday Aesthetics of Mediation
No full textAccounting is often thought of in terms of numbers and abstract models, yet it is sustained in practice by a host of ordinary objects. This paper demonstrates how seemingly mundane items—blackboards, cue cards, flipcharts, sticky notes, envelopes, and boxes—can play quiet yet decisive roles in extending and connecting accounting into new settings. Borrowing from literature on everyday surface aesthetics, we introduce the notion of geometric mediation to denote how certain arrangements of mundane objects can draw us in, appearing so compelling that they invite us to connect the abstract logics associated with them. We illustrate this process through a study of the Logical Framework, a performance tool for nongovernmental organizations, and its transformation when adopted by a German development agency in the 1970s. Although the tool initially met resistance from an agency whose logics conflicted with the use of managerial devices, the simple materials used to operationalize the tool helped these differences feel less stark. Their shapes and arrangements made the framework look naturally compatible with other approaches, leading to a new version of the tool, known as ZOPP. Our study contributes in two ways. First, it shows how everyday aesthetics can quietly help accounting spread and adapt. Second, it offers a new view of how accounting brings together competing aspirations, not only through explicit negotiation or compromise, but also through subtle, often unnoticed material connections that make things feel “right” before they are fully thought about
The Longitude and Latitude of World Cinema: Recalculating...
No full textA revised and expanded introduction for The Routledge Companion to World Cinema, Second Editio
Building a local currency:Elaborating, maintaining and redirecting values through tensions
No full textBy documenting the lifecycle of a French local currency project, we explore the elaboration, maintenance, and rearrangement of values and the role played by tensions in such a process. We draw from a rich, 18-month ethnographic investigation that involved over 400 h of direct participant observation, conducting 23 formal interviews, attending dozens of meetings and events, and collecting emails and online exchanges on the server of the project. Through temporal bracketing, we identified three temporal phases in the development of the local currency: (i) Articulating and sketching out a value-driven organization (May 2013–November 2015); (ii) Framing values through tensions: Two visions at play (December 2015–May 2016); and (iii) Balancing out means and ends: Putting values to the test (June 2016–September 2018). We characterize three forms of values work – Positioning, Convincing, and Rearranging – associated with each of these phases. By examininng how each of this call upon various resources and techniques and are performed by various actors, we show how tensions act as catalysts for values work
Digital Technologies in Innovation Ecosystem:A Systematic Review of Current Trends and Future Perspective
No full textThis article explores the role of digital technologies in innovation ecosystems. Using the systematic literature review (SLR) technique, we have reviewed and analyzed 71 articles published in major innovation journals. Our review was conducted using a comprehensive search strategy, to identify, select, evaluate, and synthesize pertinent literature on this topic. The findings of this review are categorized into three main sections: (i) quantitative descriptive analysis—highlighting existing research profile, (ii) thematic content analysis—delineating extant literature into key streams and presenting a comprehensive synthesis, and (iii) critical analysis—highlighting knowledge gaps in the current literature and to set a future research agenda by developing specific research questions. We contribute to the innovation literature by developing a synthesized framework that provides a bird's eye view at the intersection of digital technologies and the innovation ecosystem. The findings of this review provide novel insights into how digital technologies can be effectively used to support innovation ecosystems as well as the challenges that need to be addressed to fully realize their potential.</p
Becoming a teacher:A gendered risk aversion strategy among aspirational middle-class women in Contemporary China
No full textChina's enduring Confucian ethics maintain a hierarchical, heteronormative gender order at its core, significantly impacting the subordinate role of women within a predominantly male-centric society. This traditional gender order continues to influence China's governance and family dynamics. Individuals in China, regardless of their sexual orientation, grapple with this normative structure in their daily lives, necessitating constant negotiation. Our study focuses on elucidating the persistence of this gender structure and its intersection with middle-class aspirations by examining one of China's most feminized professions—teachers. We employ gender and class as our primary analytical lenses to understand how female teachers make career and marital choices influenced by their gendered middle-class aspirations. By doing so, we reintroduce 'class' into the analysis of gender-related disparities in China, which is often overlooked. Furthermore, we emphasize the significance of considering gendered class analysis in contemporary discussions on labor issues, highlighting the central role of the heteronormative gender structure in shaping multifaceted inequalities in present-day China
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