Consumption institutions reflect socially constructed systems of rules that generate regularities in people …'s consumption behavior. This paper seeks to understand these institutions by using insights from recent developments in rhetorical … analysis and the economics of institutions in order to develop an analogy between speech and consumption and to explore …

underpins the formal rational modelling of modern economic theory. Following John Searle, it is argued that the deliberations …' capacities and dispositions. It is shown why the formal version of rational choice theory employed in economics does not have the … resources to address such capacities and dispositions, and that the prevailing commitment to this theory thereby reinforces …

. Through exhaustive literature review and grounded theory approach this paper investigates the learning – IT nexus in knowledge … many disciplines, yet education institutions world over are adopting IT with a hope of enhancing the learning effectiveness … which is crucial for the knowledge management and development. …

paper first contests the concepts of 'knowledge' and 'institutions', before arguing that the 'systems' within which …The paper is built around a critique of the recent book by McNeely and Wolverton, entitled Reinventing Knowledge. The … knowledge is embedded are in reality growing more and more complex. The huge scale and scope of the present-day Internet in our …