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1. Seeking New Values for the Innovative Corporation
(Blog/Management)

... to become seduced by this rule oriented approach, and people like me who teach them in business schools are partially to blame for encouraging such an orientation. However, this mechanical approach should ...

2. Redefining Accountability
(Blog/Policy)

... and convinced that they should behave in a selfish and self-serving manner. Even Michael Jensen himself, one of the original proponents and current principal standard bearer for agency cost theory, has ...

3. The regulatory state: the new serfdom
(Blog/Policy)

... services industry, but I cannot contemplate that any rational person would agree that market forces alone should determine whether or not we sell rotten meat, or allow children into mines, or have access ...

4. Credibility for Competition Authorities
(Blog/Law)

... nor understand a pro-competition regime. So the competition authority must do now, what the state should have done earlier, and promote the knowledge and skills of the judiciary in competition matters. ...

5. Management and Responsiblity
(Blog/Management)

... setting. Looking at where we are now, I am not sure that we should hold our breaths.  ...

6. Living Long and Remembering One’s Mistakes
(Blog/Policy)

... the ordinary people in the streets of Jamaica. It is significant that the two Jamaicas, and the implications that had for the future instability and underdevelopment of the country, should have been so ...

7. Competition Law and Policy in a Small-State Setting
(Blog/Policy)

... in the CARICOM experience. There are many challenges relating to content of the law to be introduced, and in particular how we should treat the mergers, of economic units in small economies, as well ...

8. There is no spoon
(Blog/Policy)

... the political statements on which future administrative actions may be based, but it does not prescribe what that administrative framework should be.  This paper seeks to address that issue.  It offers ...

9. A voice in the wilderness
(Blog/Law)

... should be clear to the ADSC that the company, which has been having problems meeting its costs, was facing financial pressures. She said Caribbean Cement would continue to push its case in new submissions ...

10. More banks wanted
(Blog/Policy)

... suggested that local players should look to the international community for creative joint ventures in order to meet these strict requirements by the regulatory authorities. "We have an increasing globalised ...

11. Modernisation of the framework for arbitration
(Blog/Law)

... persons should be an integral component of any attempt to modernise the framework for arbitration. Positive policy impact Against this background, the workshop of February 18 was geared to and involved ...

12. Ghoshal was wrong
(Blog/Management)

... who are devoid of any sense of moral responsibility and convinced that they should behave in a selfish and self-serving manner. There is much more to Ghoshal’s article than that, of course, but it was ...

13. The middle class and development
(Blog/Policy)

... of the IMF position was that poor countries should not have inappropriate aspirations.  Consumption was for rich countries. Poor countries, like India, should be content with subsistence. The image the ...

14. Public Service Quality
(Blog/Management)

... public service departments should deliver good public service; and the better the public service, the better the public service organization. I used the SERVQUAL instrument to measure public service quality ...

15. Towards an anticorruption theory of public procurement
(Blog/Policy)

... one, and thus our public procurement systems should promote greater transparency. A very useful test in any any public procurement exercise is whether the public procurement officers would be happy for ...

16. Thick and fast
(Blog/Law)

... that '... by her misconduct Levers J showed that she was not fit to continue to serve as a judge of the Grand Court and humbly advises Her Majesty that she should be removed from that office on the ground ...

17. Making people into cockroaches
(Blog/Law)

... of Lloyd and it is that this shooting was done in the full view of several members of the public who were apparently encouraging the policemen in the criminal action. In other words, our indictment should ...