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From Bangladesh to responsibility to protect: the legality and implementation criteria for humanitarian intervention
No full textHomogeneous National Management Policies or Autonomous Choices by Administrative units?
No full textThis article presents an original research on the use of management tools in central government departments and agencies in 16 European countries. It is based on a survey conducted among senior managers (n = 5,998). The analysis shows that the use of management tools results from a combination of top-down implementation of a list of management tools at the national level, combined with a bottom-up independent selection of tools by administrative units. The variation in management tool use depends on the type of tool. While the uses of a HRM tool, such as performance-related pay, or a financial tool, such as risk management, are heavily influenced by national public management policies, service quality-type tools, such as user surveys or quality management systems, tend to be chosen in a more autonomous manner by different administrative units, especially agencies
Auswirkungen des neuen europäischen Bildungsmodells auf die Verknüpfung zwischen Berufs- und Hochschulbildung in Deutschland, Österreich und Frankreich
No full textCorporate Entrepreneurship: Partial Divestitures as Real Option
No full textScholars in strategy and entrepreneurship have discussed the benefits and difficulties of keeping ventures inside the firm versus separating them through divestitures and the balance between control and autonomy. Using an in-depth analysis of cases of partial divestitures, this study examines the organizational arrangement that arises from divestitures with a retained parent-unit relationship. The emerging framework connects the parent-unit relationship and its modifications along the divestiture's objective – specifically, the exploration carried out by the unit. Partial divestitures are designed as real options, for firms to manage corporate venturing, taking advantage of the flexibility that such arrangement may grant
On the Future of the Public Policy School
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This essay is a reflection on the three decades I had the privilege
of spending at public policy schools in the United States, Britain,
and Germany. In the course of these years, my roles changed from
student to researcher, from assistant professor to full professor,
from faculty member to director, then dean and, finally, president.
For nearly a third of that time, I had the honour of serving at the
helm of the Hertie School of Governance. In this position, I had
the opportunity to get to know and visit around 50 other public
policy schools around the world, to act as external examiner, to
serve on several advisory boards and review committees, and to
host the Global Public Policy Network at the Hertie School of
Governance 2014-16
Nonparametric double additive cure survival models: An application to the estimation of the non-linear effect of age at first parenthood on fertility progression
Get PDFThis article introduces double additive models to describe the effect of continuous covariates in cure survival models, thereby relaxing the traditional linearity assumption in the two regression parts. This class of models extends the classical event history models when an unknown proportion of the population under study will never experience the event of interest. They are used on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to examine how age at first birth relates to the timing and quantum of fertility for given education levels of the respondents. It is shown that the conditional probability of having further children decreases with the mother's age at first birth. While the effect of age at first birth in the third birth's probability model is fairly linear, this is not the case for the second child with an accelerating decline detected for women that had their first kid beyond age 30
Growing in a Niche: Dual Study Programs Contribute to Change in Germany’s Higher Education
No full textSummary: The German educational model is characterized by a histori-cally evolved strong institutional di-vide between the vocational educa-tion and training system and the higher education system. Yet, the con-temporary development of dual study programs implies the systematic combination of institutional elements from both subsystems. The rapid ex-pansion of these programs is based on the hybridization of organizational structures – outside of traditional structures – at the nexus of the tradi-tional organizational fields of voca-tional training and higher education
Bunching on the Autobahn? Speeding responses to a ‘notched’ penalty scheme
Get PDFThis paper studies drivers’ responses to a ‘notched’ penalty scheme in which speeding penalties are stepwise and discontinuously increasing in speed. We present survey evidence suggesting that drivers in Germany are well aware of the notched penalty structure. Based on a simple analytical framework, we analyze the impact of the notches on drivers’ optimal speed choices. The model’s predictions are confronted with data on more than 150,000 speeding tickets from the Autobahn and 290,000 speed measures from a traffic monitoring system. The data provide evidence on modest levels of bunching, despite several frictions working against it. We analyze the normative implications and assess the scope for welfare gains from moving from a simple, notched penalty scheme to a more complex but less salient Pigouvian scheme
