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This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...

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Marx, Veblen, and contemporary institutional political economy : principles and unstable dynamics of capitalism

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The economic institutions of higher education : economic theories of university behavior

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Working within the context of the evolutionary-institutional transformation of higher education, the authors trace the development of an economic model by which the behavioral tendencies of modern universities can be evaluated. That model is expanded to provide insights to the following...

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Communication and cooperation in the virtual workplace : teamwork in computer-mediated-communication

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Cost-benefit analysis and health care evaluations

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The political economy of HIV/AIDS in developing countries : TRIPS, public health systems, and free access

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