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A Systematic Review of Tools Available in the Field of Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality interfaces have been extensively researched throughout the past few decades, with many user studies being conducted. This paper examines the landscape of research on augmented reality. We summarise the overall...
Does it matter who extorts? Extortion by competent and incompetent enforcers
Andrew Samuel, Ajit Mishra
Dec 31, 2021

This paper offers a novel explanation for extortion, which is the practice of demanding payments from compliant agents by law-enforcement officers. Namely, that extortion occurs due to the officer's incompetence, where the...

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Entrepreneurship, corporate governance and Indian business elites
Entrepreneurship and corporate governance are key issues in the debate surrounding competitiveness, sustainability and accountability. Despite the rhetoric of borderless transnational corporations driven by homogenizing trends...
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High-powered incentives and communication failure
Ajit Mishra, S. Sarangi
Nov 01, 2016
This paper uses a donor–provider–agent framework to study the role of provider incentives for the delivery of developmental goods like aid, credit, or technology transfer to the poor. It considers a situation where credible...
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High-powered incentives and communication failure
Ajit Mishra, S. Sarangi
Nov 01, 2016
This paper uses a donor–provider–agent framework to study the role of provider incentives for the delivery of developmental goods like aid, credit, or technology transfer to the poor. It considers a situation where credible...
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A Modified Markov-Based Maximum-Entropy Model for POS Tagging of Odia Text
POS (parts of speech) tagging, a vital step in diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks, has not drawn much attention in the case of Odia, a computationally under-developed language. The proposed hybrid method suggests a...
Does inequality foster corruption?
I Dutta, Ajit Mishra
Aug 01, 2013
We investigate how inequality affects corruption and provide a new insight to the possible channels through which such effect may work. We favour an explanation based on a multi-market framework where corruption in one market...
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Co-evolution, opportunity seeking and institutional change
Ajit Nayak, Mairi Maclean
Jan 01, 2013

This paper demonstrates the importance for entrepreneurship of historical contexts and processes, and the co-evolution of institutions, practices, discourses and cultural norms. Drawing on discourse and institutional...

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Co-evolution, opportunity seeking and institutional change
Ajit Nayak, Mairi Maclean
Jan 01, 2013

This paper demonstrates the importance for entrepreneurship of historical contexts and processes, and the co-evolution of institutions, practices, discourses and cultural norms. Drawing on discourse and institutional...

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Does it matter who extorts? Extortion by competent and incompetent enforcers
Andrew Samuel, Ajit Mishra
Dec 31, 2021

This paper offers a novel explanation for extortion, which is the practice of demanding payments from compliant agents by law-enforcement officers. Namely, that extortion occurs due to the officer's incompetence, where the...

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Group inequality and conflict
This paper presents a theoretical model to show how distributional concerns can engender social conflict. We have a two-period model that highlights the crucial role of future inequality. Equality of assets and income in the...
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Preemptive bribery and incomplete information
Ajit Mishra, Andrew Samuel
Jun 01, 2017
This paper studies bribery between a firm and a supervisor who monitors the firm for regulatory compliance. Bribery occurs preemptively, that is before the supervisor exerts costly effort to discover the firm's level of...
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Preemptive bribery and incomplete information
Ajit Mishra, Andrew Samuel
Jun 01, 2017
This paper studies bribery between a firm and a supervisor who monitors the firm for regulatory compliance. Bribery occurs preemptively, that is before the supervisor exerts costly effort to discover the firm's level of...
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Does inequality foster corruption?
I Dutta, Ajit Mishra
Aug 01, 2013
We investigate how inequality affects corruption and provide a new insight to the possible channels through which such effect may work. We favour an explanation based on a multi-market framework where corruption in one market...
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Entrepreneurship, corporate governance and Indian business elites
Entrepreneurship and corporate governance are key issues in the debate surrounding competitiveness, sustainability and accountability. Despite the rhetoric of borderless transnational corporations driven by homogenizing trends...
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Group inequality and conflict
This paper presents a theoretical model to show how distributional concerns can engender social conflict. We have a two-period model that highlights the crucial role of future inequality. Equality of assets and income in the...
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Save the Internet
Mark Y. Herring
Jan 01, 0001
With rare exception, nothing has galvanized activists and those of us in libraries more these days than net neutrality. It's also "a thing" with just about everyone else. If you "google" the phrase, the first two or three...
Published by: Winthrop University
Save the Internet
Mark Y. Herring
Jan 01, 0001
With rare exception, nothing has galvanized activists and those of us in libraries more these days than net neutrality. It's also "a thing" with just about everyone else. If you "google" the phrase, the first two or three...
Published by: Winthrop University

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