Professional ties that bind: how normative orientations shape IMF conditionality

IMF Conditionality

This paper presents a principal-agent model of IMF conditional lending, in the aftermath of a “capital-account” liquidity crisis. We show that traditional ex-post conditionality can be e¤ective in safeguarding the Fund’s resources, allowing for the provision of e¢cient emergency lending and reducing ine¢cient ex-ante credit rationing if the capital out‡ow which triggers the crisis is not excess...

The Ties That Bind

Using an interdisciplinary research methodology across three archaeological and historical case studies, this article explores “family archives.” Four themes illustrate how objects held in family archives, curation practices, and intergenerational narratives reinforce a family’s sense of itself: people–object interactions, gender, socialization and identity formation, and the “life course.” The...

How Tight Are the Ties that Bind Stakeholder Groups?

The purpose of stakeholder management is to facilitate our understanding of increasingly unpredictable external environments, thereby facilitating our ability to manage within these environments. We argue that a powerful implicit assumption within the stakeholder literature—that priorities within rolebased stakeholder groups are relatively homogeneous—blurs our understanding of organization-sta...

The ties that bind. How belief creates birth realities.

The different ties that bind

The different ties that bind B efore they separate into daughter cells during mitosis, sister chroma-tids are held together by cohesin complexes. But these complexes aren't the same along the entire length of the chro-matids, according to Canudas and Smith: The version of cohesin that links sister telomeres is different from the form that fastens centromeres together (1). Cohesin consists of fo...