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We illuminate several important aspects of the nature and causes of growth and institutional change. To do this, we focus on the role resource pressures have played in the historic development of Hawaii's institutions. We discuss the Hawaiian story in the context of the natural co-evolution of...
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This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the … indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned … about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that inhabit a given area. Concepts of species diversity such as alpha …
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This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural Environments, financed by the European Commission FP5 Key Action: Improving socio-economic knowledge base. Contract HPSE-CT2001-50007
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Theories on diversity and diversity management within the field of Organisation Studies started to develop in the 80s …, mainly under the influence of managerial reports pointing towards the increasing diversity of the future workforce. The … purpose of this paper is to 1) review the existing studies on diversity identifying their main purposes, 2) identify the …
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The paper is an overview of diversity in history, starting as far back as the societies in classical Ancient Europe and … between status and class. The second part of the paper is devoted to diversity outside formal society with the definitions of … diversity and marginality. …
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This paper summarises research into localised urban systems which accounts for variations in styles of diversity within … the need to adapt the model to account also for the process of diversity. This third phase combines ethnography with …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the diversity of groups of workers and the local …
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