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Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

The Point of View Makes the Difference. Explaining the Position of Women in Myanmar

Winterberger, Georg

In: Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, 2017, vol. 71, no. 1, p. 433-448

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Corporate Governance in a Risk Society

Schneider, Anselm ; Scherer, Andreas

In: Journal of Business Ethics, 2015, vol. 126, no. 2, p. 309-323

Université de Fribourg

Peer Grading the Peer Reviews : A Dual-Role Approach for Lightening the Scholarly Paper Review Process

Arous, Ines ; Yang, Jie ; Khayati, Mourad ; Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe

In: The Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 12-23, 2021, 2021, p. 1-12

Scientific peer review is pivotal to maintain quality standards for academic publication. The effectiveness of the reviewing process is currently being challenged by the rapid increase of paper submissions in various conferences. Those venues need to recruit a large number of reviewers of different levels of expertise and background. The submitted reviews often do not meet the conformity...

Université de Fribourg

Independent and competing agencies : An effective way to control government

Schelker, Mark ; Eichenberger, Reiner

In: Public Choice, 2007, vol. 130, p. 79-98

Controlling government is a primary focus of the politico-economic literature. Recently, various political institutions have been analyzed from this perspective, most importantly balanced budget rules, fiscal federalism, and direct democracy. However, one type of institution has been neglected so far: elected competitors to the government. Such institutional competition between the government...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Corporate social responsibility and information and communication technology in the digital age

Schultz, Mario Dominik ; Seele, Peter (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020COM003.

Pervasive digital technologies are transforming economies and societies worldwide. This dissertation focuses on Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) as the dominant model of business ethics over the last decades, in an attempt to better understand the digital transformation. Digitalization represents a fundamental and challenging transformation and promises to touch on almost all areas of...

Université de Fribourg

Sovereign States and their International Institutional Order : Carrying Forward Dworkin's Work on the Political Legitimacy of International Law

Besson, Samantha

In: Jus Cogens: a critical journal of philosophy of law and politics (online), 2020, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 1-28

International law’s legitimacy has come under serious attack lately, including, and maybe even more so, in regimes considered democratic. Reading Dworkin’s New Philosophy for International Law in the current context is a timely reminder of the centrality of the political legitimacy of international law. Interestingly, indeed, his account does not succumb to the (however progressive)...

Université de Fribourg

Household resources and individual strategies

Deschênes, Sarah ; Dumas, Christelle ; Lambert, Sylvie

(Working Papers SES ; 517)

The question of diverging interests and preferences within couples over the use of household resources and the consequences of these conflictual views has been present for a long time in the development literature, albeit in a somewhat scattered way. This paper selectively reviews the abundant literature that offers insights into the intrahousehold decision-making process, the strategies put...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Implementation of smart contract in the Liquefied Natural Gas trade

Sananes, Gary ; Piller, Robert (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2019 ; TDIBM 61.

In this Bachelor thesis, we will study all the key aspects for the implementation of a smart contract for a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) trade. As starting point, a brief introduction about LNG is written to realise the specificities of the commodity traded. Then, smart contracts will be presented as well as its fundamental goal and the key concerns about how English law is regulating them....