For the first time since the pandemic, North Korea is allowing private individuals to go crabbing along the Yellow Sea coast. Entrepreneurs are scrambling to recruit crews and secure gear.
#NorthKorea #DPRK #Marketization #NKEconomy www.dailynk.com/english/ease...

North Korea youth embrace “going Dutch” North Korean students are increasingly splitting restaurant bills, a shift that older generations say upends traditional notions of collective generosity.

North Korean high schoolers are dining out multiple times a week — and splitting the bill evenly. Elders are baffled. "How can they call each other comrades after that?"
#NorthKorea #DPRK #Marketization #GenerationalDivide

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⁉️ Are business-like nonprofits more susceptible to prioritize more easy-to-serve clients over those with more complex needs? New cross-country study in NVSQ on #nonprofit #marketization and #mission #drift with Johan Hvenmark, ChiaKo Hung, & Bram Verschuere

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<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library Propelled by the New Public Management reforms, the infusion of market values in the public-nonprofit interface is argued to have increased nonprofit organizations' (NPOs) capacity to influence publi....

⁉️ Does #marketization encourage #nonprofit #organizations to abandon their #critical #voice towards their funding government? Find the answer in our new article @PAReview: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#CWOSSeminar Wed 4 June 2025, 12 to 1pm, on Zoom.

"Emergency Food Aid in Britain: The Creep of Marketization and Professionalization"

Speaker: Dr Jayne Jennett

Learn more: www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...

#FoodAid
#Marketization
#Professionalization

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End of research stay at the National Sun Yat-sen University. Taking home: 400+ full survey responses on #nonprofit #marketization & #performance, two new paper ideas, and some travel memories. Thanks Chin-Chang Tsai
for the hospitality, support and collaboration. Now, back to #UGent ✈️

🇹🇼 Last not least, I closed out the year with a research stay at the College of Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung. In addition to guest lecturing, this allowed me to replicate my cross-country survey on #nonprofit #marketization, #performance and #context in #Taiwan. 4/7

🚨Just published:🚨
Everyday Bribery in North Korea as Moral Economy
by Jay Song, Boyoung Yoon, Sungkyung Kim,
Adam Zulawnik

Free to access for one week!
#bribery #NorthKorea #moral_economy #marketization

doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Can I say that student hoarding is also the inevitable by-product of stagnant (by gov policy) tuition fee level? Institutions need more money and can't raise tuition so... you cannibalize your competitors. "Imperfect" #Marketization