JUDICIAL ECONOMIC EXPERTISE AS A REGIONAL TOOL FOR MANAGING MANAGERIAL DECISIONS

Managing IT-Expertise: Towards an Organizational Memory System as a Tool for IT-based Process Improvements

This paper analyzes major problems concerning IT management and examines how an organizational memory system (OMS) may help to overcome them. Emphasis is placed on the organizational impacts of IT, particularly its effects on business processes. This domain was selected because (1) the problems of managing IT and the urge to continuously improve business practices are both very important and cl...

Tourism as an Economic Develpment Tool

a tool for managerial decision making aligned with quality development

background and purpose: internal evaluation has been a growing trend as the first step improvement in higher education specially in medical universities of iran. however, the results of this time consuming process of internal evaluation seems to be underused. we provide a description of anesthesiology department of shaheed beheshti university of medical sciences where the results were used to i...

Extraneous factors in judicial decisions.

Are judicial rulings based solely on laws and facts? Legal formalism holds that judges apply legal reasons to the facts of a case in a rational, mechanical, and deliberative manner. In contrast, legal realists argue that the rational application of legal reasons does not sufficiently explain the decisions of judges and that psychological, political, and social factors influence judicial rulings...

Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions∗

Racial and gender disparities are prevalent in the criminal justice system, but the sources of these disparities remain largely unknown. This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to these disparities using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican appointed judges sentence black de...