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The Big Issue of Small Businesses: Contract Enforcement in the New Russia
Vinogradova, Elena - 2005
owners and/or managers of forty-five firms in 2001 and 2002.When firms perceive state institutions as unable to guarantee the …-state enforcement strategies are rooted in preexisting institutions and cultural practices, and develop in response to specific kinds of … contract enforcement and dispute resolution, as well as the significance that state contract enforcement institutions have for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450578
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Strategic recognition: Watching the state in Shenzhen
O'Donnell, Mary Ann; O'Donnell, Mary Ann - 1999
Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, People's Republic of China, I offer a reading of Reform and Opening (Gaige Kaifang) in terms of how individuals recognized, manipulated, avoided, and responded to the Chinese state apparatus during the Deng...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441961
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Illegal drug trafficking and economic development in Colombia
Molina, Pablo Augusto - 1995
degree of cohesion between formal and informal institutions determines the direction of institutional change. Finally, that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477810
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Managing Water: Efficiency-Equity Tradeoffs in the Participatory Approach
O'Donnell, Anna - 2010
. Literature within the field of economics and sociology has argued for tradeoffs in outcomes of allocative efficiency and equity … and institutional efficiency and equity, respectively. Community-based participatory institutions are expected to overcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450950
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BEYOND BUDGET RATIONALITIES: THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF PERFORMANCE BUDGETING AND ITS INDIRECT EFFECTS ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITHIN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS
Nye, Robert Kennedy - 2010
within the budget rationalities construct, and applies economic sociology theory to explain budgeting behavior in this … indirect effects associated with performance based budgeting. The paradigm for public budgeting theory is the budget … rationalities theory that describes budgeting's bargaining, negotiating, and control processes. However, a large portion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430895
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Trade orientation and income distribution in developing countries
Karimi, Syafruddin
increased degree of openness, while the share of higher income classes tend to decrease with it. Income inequality drops when … inequality is found to give weak support to Kuznets' inverted U relationship. Higher investment ratio is found to be favorable … income inequality, while mean years of schooling is positively associated with higher income inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431389
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THE CITY AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM: THE EFFECT OF SIZE, PRODUCTIVE OUTPUT, COMPLEXITY, LEVEL OF ENERGY AND GROWTH ON SYSTEM MAINTENANCE AND REGULATION
O'NEALL, LINDA REAMS
The present research was an analysis of cities as social systems, using data for the 148 SMSA's of 200,000 or larger population in 1970. It examines the relationship among variables representative of several theoretical concepts, which are system size, productive output, complexity, growth,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431659
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Network Dynamics in Small Business Financing: Institutional Changes and Transformations of Inter-organizational Relations.
Buhr, Maria Helena - 2010
A central insight in economic sociology is that firms depend on relationships with other organizations for their access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476976
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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999
Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004
under difficult economic conditions. We develop an alternative theory that explains wage arrears through their acceptance as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477502
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Trends in wage inequality : the role of trade, technical change and labor market institutions
Tchipev, Anton - 2007
The present work aims to contribute to a better understanding of the determinants of wage inequality focussing on the … explaining wage inequality I attempt a re-evaluation of its role starting from the premise that globalization, technical change … and thedecline in labor market institutions are three interrelated phenomena. The focus on the interdependence of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471896