Similarity of religious beliefs and practices among friends, or network-religion autocorrelation, is a common aspect of many social networks. Network-religion autocorrelation is important because it strengthens plausibility structures (Berger 1967), or the combination of beliefs and strong social ties to others who share those beliefs. Plausibility structures support sacred umbrellas (Smith 199...

The OK Study Centre is a nationwide liberal adult education provider that specialises in training NGOs and associations. It is maintained by an umbrella organisation of 67 Finnish NGOs. In spring 2012, as part of its development programme sponsored by the Finnish National Board of Education, the study centre conducted a survey of training and skills needs in its member NGOs and their regional o...

The budgets of development NGOs have risen dramatically over the last decades. In stark contrast to bilateral donors, the geographic choices of NGOs remain virtually unexplored. Using a new dataset and Lorenz curves, this paper shows that NGOs are very active in some countries and hardly active in others. A clustering of NGO activity takes place in UN-labelled high priority countries, but ample...

Abstract. We prove several results on the distribution of values of L-functions at the edge of the critical strip, by constructing and studying a large class of random Euler products. Among new applications, we provide a precise estimate for the distribution of the values at s = 1 of the family of k-th symmetric power L-functions of primitive cusp forms of weight 2 in the level aspect (assuming...

Strong patterns of concentration characterize the location decisions of development NGOs. Since current theories on non-profit location choice tend to neglect such tendencies, this article develops an evolutionary economic geography approach to non-profit organizations. It focuses on increasing returns to scale, labor mobility and path dependence and contextualizes those factors. A survey invol...

Is the increased use in wildlife conservation of techniques derived from military and security services appropriate? One aspect this issue that remains poorly considered is whether all actors engaged projects have a orientation are primarily conservation. Western intelligence agencies known to used non-government aid organizations (NGOs) as cover for clandestine operations. Does happen conserva...

One of the most striking features of the anglophone literature on NGOs is the diversity of NGO sectors and their contributions to civil society and democracy; yet, exploration of this complexity is often eschewed in favour of a normative approach in which the apparently mutually enhancing relationship between NGOs, civil society and the state is underpinned by liberal democratic assumption rath...

This study aims to designate the appropriate green supply chain management (GSCM) strategies for electronic industries to control their business functions and activities effectively. Because many previous works mixed up green strategies, regulations, and activities, we propose an integrated network model from the aspect of product development so that four business functions, i.e., design, purch...

This study focuses on the relationship between NGOs’ active participation in municipal budgeting and their perception of budget efficiency. Our research estimates relationships among transparency, trust municipality, NGOs' participation, responsibility, efficiency via structural equation model. The findings indicate that plays a key role model directly affects Besides, increased positively affe...