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"This paper provides evidence on the empirical separability of input and output market imperfections. We specify a model of banking competition and simultaneously estimate bank conduct in output (loan) and input (deposit) markets. Our results suggest that firms display some degree of noncompetitive behavior in both the loan and the deposit markets. Moreover, we find that the input side and the output side are empirically separable, that is the measurement of market power on one side of the market is not affected by assuming that the other side of the market is perfectly competitive. Our results suggest that empirical studies of market power that concentrate on either the input side or the output side, are not subject to significant misspecification error." (author's abstract)

Aynsley Kellow argues that the author's reanalysis of Lowi's arenas of power serves to 'confuse' the arenas scheme. The debate continues with a reply from Kellow and a rejoinder from Spitzer. (JLN)

This book is the first book on the subject for smaller businesses. Until now, design thinking - a methodology for solving business problems and identifying opportunities - has been the playground fro companies with big budgets, giving them the advantage of the innovation that comes from using the latest design thinking tools emerging from Stanford, Harvard, Northwestern and elsewhere.

ResumoA ampliação dos debates na academia em torno do conceito de inovação social mostra que os construtos associados a esse tema ainda estão em discussão, apesar dos esforços e avanços demonstrados nos discursos em torno das suas características. O pressuposto neste ensaio teórico é que a inovação social é um conceito que vai além da tecnologia social, porque esta última se comporta como ferramenta com potencial para que a inovação social aconteça. A proposta com este artigo ganha importância uma vez que a tecnologia social é um termo utilizado no Brasil para também definir iniciativas de inovação social, mas que não tem sido encontrado em referências internacionais, daí a inquietação dos pesquisadores em investigar o tema. Os resultados apontam que as temáticas se sobrepõem em diversos pontos, porém se entende que a inovação social tem o propósito de ampliar o escopo das tecnologias sociais adotadas pelas comunidades, quando proporcionam empoderamento aos atores envolvidos no processo de governança, concedendo-lhes, também, ganhos com vistas à transformação social.Palavras-chave: Inovação social. Tecnologia social. Transformação social. Social innovation beyond social technology: constructs under discussion AbstractThe expansion of the discussions in academy around the concept of Social Innovation (SI) shows that the constructs associated with this issue are still under discussion, despite the efforts and progress demonstrated in speeches around their features. The assumption of this theoretical essay is that the SI is a concept that goes beyond the Social Technology (ST), that behaves as a potential tool for that SI happens. The purpose of this paper gains importance as the Social Technology is a term used in Brazil to define Social Innovation initiatives, but has not been found in international references, hence the concern of researchers to investigate the issue. The results indicate that the themes overlap at various issues, but it is understood that social innovation is intended to enlarge the scope of social technologies adopted by the communities, when they provide empowerment to the actors involved in the governance process, granting them also gains to social transformation.Keywords: Social innovation. Social technology. Social transformation.

Using research methods and techniques, the author closely analyses the emergence of the Irish language amongst republican prisoners and ex prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970's up until the present. This pioneering study shows how the language was used exclusively in parts of the prison, despite the efforts of the prison authorities to suppress the language, and the dramatic impact this had on Irish society. Drawing on interviews with the prisoners, and various other materials, Mac Giolla Chriost shows how these developments gave rise to the popular coinage of the term 'Jailtacht', a

This textual analysis traces the framing of the 2011–2012 anti-Kremlin protests in Russia by the nation's most popular tabloid, Komsomol'skaya Pravda. The findings show that the otherwise agnostic newspaper came to adopt Vladimir Putin's rhetoric challenging the protesters, who represented the emerging, Internet-savvy, professional "creative class." As this tug-of-war over Putin's political prerogative to define the creative class in contemporary Russia developed in print, the newspaper was transformed from an apolitical, commercial tabloid operating beyond the scope of Putin's media control into a quasi pro-government organ that would adopt Putin's framing to marginalize social dissent long after the rallies declined. By examining the newspaper's development of its pro-Putin interpretive package, this study provides insight into the expansion of neo-Soviet, state–media tensions affecting the ostensibly apolitical sector of commercialized, privately owned press in post-Soviet Russia.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the characteristics of working practices, in particular HRM practices in work settings in Chile, specifically the regulatory strength of organisational culture.


Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on data gathered from a non-probabilistic sample of 1299 workers in the Metropolitan Region of Chile.


Findings
Findings suggest that HRM practices sustain, while restructuring, dynamics of worker monitoring and control, consistent with historical and social patterns of relationships in Chile. These relationships are sustained via status differences and operate through the development of paternalistic relationships between managers and workers.


Originality/value
The paper provides insight into the character of human resource management in Latin America from the perspective of workers. In addition, it highlights the impact of organisational culture on regulating workplaces and shaping HRM practices that do not challenge the socio-cultural order.

OFTEN CONSIDERED TO BE IDENTICAL WITH LEFT RADICALISM IN GERMANY, THE GREENS ARE BUT THE MOST PROMINENT ORGANIZATION TO EMERGE FROM A BROADBASED AND DIVERSE SOCIAL MOVMENT. THIS PAPER ADDRESSES THE DIFFERING ORGANIZATIONAL STYLES OF TWO WINGS OF POLITICAL MOVMENT IN GERMANY. IT SEES TWO APPRAOCHES WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM AS COMPLIMENTARY--THEY REQUIRE ONE ANOTHER FOR THEIR CONTINUAL ELABORATION AND HISTORICAL RELEVANCE. IT PONDERS HOW UNIVERALISTIC DECENTRALIZED POPULAR MOVEMENTS CAN BE PREVENTED FROM ATTRACTING AND INCORPORATING HATEFUL ELEMENTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE DRAWN FROM ETHINIC CHAUVINISM.

La structure des fortunes a-t-elle des relations immédiates avec la structure sociale ? S'ils existent, ces rapports exercent-ils sur le capitalisme, son orienta-tion et son dynamisme une influence décisive ? La société d'Ancien Régime correspond-elle nécessairement à une forme de capitalisme bloqué : un capi-talisme qui se renie parce que son dynamisme n'a pas d'objet économique, qu'il renonce à être créateur de richesses pour mieux s'intégrer à un ordre social où le capital n'a pas de valeur positive ? Y avait-il incompatibilité entre l'Ancien Régime et un capitalisme adapté aux conditions nouvelles qui commencent à se dégager, au XVIIIe siècle, des traditions du capitalisme fiscal et commercial ?

The outbreak of the new crown epidemic has had a serious impact on the social and economic development of China and Kazakhstan, and the power of digital technology has become prominent in the process of fighting against the pandemic and recovering the economy. The pandemic has created new opportunities for the development of the global digital economy, and also provides a new opportunity for China and Kazakhstan to jointly build the "Digital Silk Road". Meanwhile, under the background of the pandemic, China and Kazakhstan face many challenges to jointly build the "Digital Silk Road", including political risks, digital governance and security, third country interference and other obstacles. In the future, China and Kazakhstan can start cooperation by improving the risk assessment system, strengthening the level of digital governance, and strengthening China-Kazakhstan strategic mutual trust, so as to accelerate the construction of the "Digital Silk Road" between China and Kazakhstan.

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.By James C. Scott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 464p. $35.00.The book under discussion is James C. Scott's latest contribution to the study of agrarian politics, culture, and society, and to the ways that marginalized communities evade or resist projects of state authority. The book offers a synoptic history of Upland Southeast Asia, a 2.5 million–kilometer region of hill country spanning Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, and China. It offers a kind of "area study." It also builds on Scott's earlier work on "hidden transcripts" of subaltern groups and on "seeing like a state." The book raises many important theoretical questions about research methods and social inquiry, the relationship between political science and anthropology, the nature of states, and of modernity more generally. The book is also deeply relevant to problems of "state-building" and "failed states" in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia. As Scott writes, "The huge literature on state-making, contemporary and historic, pays virtually no attention to its obverse: the history of deliberate and reactive statelessness. This is the history of those who got away, and state-making cannot be understood apart from it. This is also what makes it an anarchist history" (p. x).In this symposium, I have invited a number of prominent political and social scientists to comment on the book, its historical narrative, and its broader theoretical implications for thinking about power, state failure, state-building, and foreign policy. How does the book shed light on the limits of states and the modes of resistance to state authority? Are there limits, theoretical and normative, to this "anarchist" understanding of governance and the "art of being governed"?—Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor