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Author: Jessica Beck Publisher: Cozy Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 216
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Blended Bribes, Donut Mystery #43, From New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck! As Suzanne Hart is coming home from visiting her college roommate, Autumn, she spots smoke in the sky above downtown April Springs, North Carolina. She fears that either her donut shop or the cottage she shares with her husband, Jake, is on fire, but it turns out to be ReNEWed, Gabby Williams’s gently used clothing shop next door to Donut Hearts. As Suzanne watches in horror, a fireman pulls someone from inside the burning building. Is it Gabby, and if it is, is she still alive? Only time will tell. As events begin to unfold, Suzanne and Grace do their best to uncover who would want to torch Gabby’s business, and the owner along with it!
Author: Jessica Beck Publisher: Cozy Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 216
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Blended Bribes, Donut Mystery #43, From New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck! As Suzanne Hart is coming home from visiting her college roommate, Autumn, she spots smoke in the sky above downtown April Springs, North Carolina. She fears that either her donut shop or the cottage she shares with her husband, Jake, is on fire, but it turns out to be ReNEWed, Gabby Williams’s gently used clothing shop next door to Donut Hearts. As Suzanne watches in horror, a fireman pulls someone from inside the burning building. Is it Gabby, and if it is, is she still alive? Only time will tell. As events begin to unfold, Suzanne and Grace do their best to uncover who would want to torch Gabby’s business, and the owner along with it!
Author: Jessica Beck Publisher: Donut Mysteries ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 186
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Blended Bribes, Donut Mystery #43, From New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck! As Suzanne Hart is coming home from visiting her college roommate, Autumn, she spots smoke in the sky above downtown April Springs, North Carolina. She fears that either her donut shop or the cottage she shares with her husband, Jake, is on fire, but it turns out to be ReNEWed, Gabby Williams's gently used clothing shop next door to Donut Hearts. As Suzanne watches in horror, a fireman pulls someone from inside the burning building. Is it Gabby, and if it is, is she still alive? Only time will tell. As events begin to unfold, Suzanne and Grace do their best to uncover who would want to torch Gabby's business, and the owner along with it!
Author: Jessica Beck Publisher: ISBN: 9781393885979 Category : Bakers Languages : en Pages : 182
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Blended Bribes, Donut Mystery #43,From New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck!As Suzanne Hart is coming home from visiting her college roommate, Autumn, she spots smoke in the sky above downtown April Springs, North Carolina. She fears that either her donut shop or the cottage she shares with her husband, Jake, is on fire, but it turns out to be ReNEWed, Gabby Williams's gently used clothing shop next door to Donut Hearts. As Suzanne watches in horror, a fireman pulls someone from inside the burning building. Is it Gabby, and if it is, is she still alive? Only time will tell. As events begin to unfold, Suzanne and Grace do their best to uncover who would want to torch Gabby's business, and the owner along with it!
Author: Carl H. Greppin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Bribery Languages : en Pages : 188
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Why do people bribe and is it worth it? Given the complex nature of this question, I use in this study both quantitative and qualitative methods. Overall, the thesis comprises three separate but interrelated studies on bribing as a major element of corruption. First, in a Qualitative strand, I interview 30 U.S. executives who work in highly corrupt countries to understand the motivations of individuals for participating in corruption. I found that some executives refuse to participate in such practices, while others choose reluctantly to succumb to extortion, while some willingly participate in corruption. I illustrate costs the executives incur from making the decisions and reasons for why they make the decisions. I find that social norms play a significant role in their decisions including personal norms (individuals' standards for behaviors and ethical beliefs), subjective norms (expectations of close others), injunctive norms (general societal expectations of behavior), and descriptive norms (what other people actually do). Second, in a Quantitative strand, I analyze World Bank Enterprise Survey data of 2,956 firms in the former Soviet republics where bribing is prevalent to understand firm participation in bribing. Bribing activity is measured by the extent, frequency, and impact of providing additional payments or gifts to get things done. I use structural equation modeling to analyze the data and find that bribing activity has a significant direct positive effect on firm performance when measured by sales growth and employment growth. I conclude that firms undergo risk, effort, and expense to bribe, and they do so rationally in that they see it as a means to increase firm performance. The third study, combining a quantitative+Qualitative strand, seeks to understand differences in corruption participation. To this end I interview local executives in Kyrgyzstan and Georgia and conduct a country level quantitative analysis of the differences in firm performance using the same world bank data. Interview findings complement the findings from the quantitative strand and prior observations from the literature. In particular, my analysis suggests that bribing improves firm performance, supporting a "grease the wheels" hypothesis. I also note significant country differences which suggests that shaping the institutional environment and related expectations can have an impact on the level of bribing activity and its size. Overall, these findings help understand what motivates executives and firms to behave in corrupt ways and participate in bribery. Especially, the findings provide novel insights to the nascent literature on bribing and to antecedents in former Soviet countries. I also make recommendations to policy makers and practitioners on how to reduce bribing as one major form of corruption.
Author: Alexandra Addison Wrage Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781467972789 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 106
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In this eminently readable collection, anti-corruption experts guide the reader through the dark world of international bribery schemes, from Washington, D.C. to Europe and Africa and across Asia. Following the authors' accounts of imaginative and varied schemes in which charitable contributions are tainted and fine art is used as a vehicle for passing bribes to greedy officials, this volume offers recommendations for the best practices companies can incorporate to avoid corruption as they interact with governments, intermediaries and each other in international markets.
Author: John Thomas Noonan Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520061545 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 868
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Traces the history of bribery from ancient Egypt to ABSCAM, examines changing perceptions of bribery, and discusses the legal, ethical and religious injunctions against bribes
Author: Jessica Beck Publisher: Cozy Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 161
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Nasty Knead, Donut Mystery #46 From New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck. When former resident and once-famous country music singer Charlie Gray comes back to April Springs to try to save his career, he gets Suzanne to agree to do a donutmaking demonstration for television, but before they can go on, someone takes the opportunity to kill, and Suzanne and Jake must battle to find the murderer before they can strike again! Jessica Beck is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Donut Mysteries, the Cast Iron Cooking Mysteries, the Classic Diner Mysteries, the Ghost Cat Cozy Mysteries, and more.
Author: Loretta Graziano Breuning Publisher: System Integrity Press ISBN: 9780974464206 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 70
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Bribery is not a harmless tradition. It undermines a country's economy and puts all participants at risk. Smart business managers and international travelers know how to respect the culture while remaining on the safe side of the law. Here's how to make integrity work for you.
Author: Cecil C. Kuhne, III Publisher: Tradeselect ISBN: 9781634259255 Category : Bribery Languages : en Pages : 159
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This book is filled with fascinating judicial decisions where the underlying factual situations were absolutely ripe for the introduction of a business bribe.
Author: Jessica Beck
Author: Jessica Beck
Author: Jessica Beck
Author: John Thomas Noonan
Author: Jessica Beck
Author: Carl H. Greppin
Author: Alexandra Addison Wrage
Author: John Thomas Noonan
Author: Jessica Beck
Author: Loretta Graziano Breuning
Author: Cecil C. Kuhne, III