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 | Bribery of Foreign Officials – a Study by Artur Victoria | | | October 30, 2009, 11:43 am | visits: 0 | | In the past the extent of bribery by companies from Western Europe and North America of foreign officials for contracts has been a matter of pure speculation Little or no empirical evidence was available | |
| Spying and Bribery – a Study by Artur Victoria | | | October 30, 2009, 11:36 am | visits: 0 | | Attitudes in the West are changing No longer is it deemed acceptable to bribe your way into a contract as long as you and your company are not caught | |
| Political Donations and Corruption - A Study by Artur Victoria | | | October 29, 2009, 9:01 am | visits: 0 | | In one case Spanish anti-corruption public prosecutors began the investigation last March into the allegedly fraudulent sale of the Spanish telephone installation company Sintel to the Cuban entrepreneur Jorge Mas Canosa The action was taken after unions alleged the former management of the company had plundered millions of pesetas from the sale of the company | |
| Approach to Knowledge and Learning Integrity - A Study by Artur Victoria | | | October 29, 2009, 8:57 am | visits: 0 | | The resources required to 'deliver' high levels of public integrity are huge though, even if it were possible; arguably greater than the resources one could imagine being available
This is due to the high costs of achieving:
• Strategic 'doneness' (prioritization/sequencing)
• Local legitimacy (polices come with ideological baggage)
• High quality of knowledge to transfer (appropriateness to context)
• Local commitment or 'buy-in'
All these play a significant role in the application of pro-integrity reforms and are hard to overcome when applying a top-down, internationally driven approach to public integrity reform, such as has characterized much policy to date | |
| Organizational Learning - A Study by Artur Victoria | | | October 29, 2009, 8:50 am | visits: 0 | | The learning curve for implementing effective reforms is steep To better understand one of the important dimensions of organizational learning, we find the distinction between tacit and codified knowledge to be a useful one | |
| Money, Arms and Much More - A Study by Artur Victoria | | | October 29, 2009, 8:43 am | visits: 0 | | If one person in the West symbolizes the growing resistance to corruption it is Eva Jolly, the Paris based investigating magistrate in the Elf Aquitaine affair With its allegations of bribes and suspicious arms deals involving those at the highest levels of French political life the case have rocked France over the last eighteen months | |
| Privatizing - A Way to Make Illicit Profits With Bribery and Corruption - A Study by Artur Victoria | | | October 29, 2009, 8:36 am | visits: 0 | | For more than a year it has been France's turn to fall under the microscope of the international media over bribery and corruption allegations, as it had been Britain turn in the mid 1990s over sleaze in the Conservative Government Recent events in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Austria, Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Cyprus, Malta, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Sweden and Finland | |
| The Lisbon Treaty For Women - The Reasons Why | | | October 28, 2009, 11:08 pm | visits: 0 | | Joining the European Community in 1973 was a fundamental step forward for Irish women who automatically upon membership of the EEC received rights of equality particularly in the field of employment For example, women who married prior to 1973 were prohibited from continuing in civil service employment following their marriage under Irish law guided by the Irish Constitution | |
| Should David Miliband Resign Over Tibet Suzerainty? | | | October 28, 2009, 11:01 pm | visits: 0 | | Last year the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband removed the suzerainty status afforded to Tibet a country the size of Europe that has been illegally occupied by China since 1959 This status of autonomy was one of the main claims Tibetans had to their nation; internationally, diplomatically and legally | |
| Short Selling The United States | | | October 23, 2009, 6:50 am | visits: 9 | | For those not familiar with the term, "Short Selling "; it means betting against the future success of a company To sell short you would borrow and sell shares of a company, you believe is doomed, at the present value with the hope that you will buy and return these shares in the future when the price is lower | |
| The Merits of a Domestic Appliance Scrappage Scheme | | | October 23, 2009, 12:21 am | visits: 9 | | In a recent move to help the environment, The British Retail Consortium has put in a request to the Government to introduce a domestic appliance scrappage scheme akin to the car industry scrappage programme that already exists in Britain The suggestion is that the government should waive the 15 per cent VAT on white goods such as fridges and washing machines when customers trade up | |
| Obama's Presidency Not Given Same Respect as Predecessors | | | October 21, 2009, 1:08 pm | visits: 10 | | The date November 4, 2008 will live in the history books forever Somewhere in this great nation, a young boy or girl is sitting in a classroom dreaming that they can achieve greatness in their life because of Barack Obama's presidency and what it represents for our country | |
| Building an Information System - A Study by Artur Victoria | | | October 18, 2009, 9:35 am | visits: 23 | | An information system (IS) can be defined as "a set of inter-related components working together to collect, retrieve, process, store and distribute information in order to facilitate the planning, control, coordination, analysis and decision making in companies and other organizations"
The most common concepts of an information system are those in which:
• Computer networks are systems of components of information processing;
• The use of computer networks by firms are, in fact, interconnected information systems;
• Developing ways of using computer networks in business includes the design of the basic components of information systems;
• The administration of information technology emphasizes the quality and value for business and security of information systems in an organization | |
| Reform Of The State And Public Programs - A Study By Artur Victoria | | | October 18, 2009, 9:22 am | visits: 17 | | An information system (IS) can be defined as "a set of inter-related components working together to collect, retrieve, process, store and distribute information in order to facilitate the planning, control, coordination, analysis and decision making in companies and other organizations"
The most common concepts of an information system are those in which:
• Computer networks are systems of components of information processing;
• The use of computer networks by firms are, in fact, interconnected information systems;
• Developing ways of using computer networks in business includes the design of the basic components of information systems;
• The administration of information technology emphasizes the quality and value for business and security of information systems in an organization | |
| Security and Information - A Study by Artur Victoria | | | October 18, 2009, 9:15 am | visits: 14 | | With the argument that society needs to have certain products or services, the government creates a public that is structured to act in a particular industry, such as education, health, safety and welfare
IT presents it as the basic components of data processing and / or information and communication through integrated electronic equipment for that | |
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