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The view of knowledge : an institutional theory of differences in educational quality
Henrekson, Magnus; Wennström, Johan - 2022
This essay argues that the most crucial institution of any school system is its view of knowledge - from which virtually all other aspects of a school are derived: the content of its curricula, its pedagogical practices, and the incentives that motivate its members. To make this case, we outline...
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Institutional Designs in International Transactions - An Evolutionary Economics Perspective
Freiling, Jörg - 2008
The globalisation of the economy goes along with numerous kinds of uncertainty and requires adequate institutional designs in order to avoid disadvantageous situations from the actors' points of view. Institutional designs usually consist of a mix of different institutions that are adapted to...
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Institutional context for local economic development in Mexico, 1990-2015 : a need for change? : ERSA 55th Congress - Special Session: Towards World Renaissance: Institutional Chan...
Palavicini Corona, Eduardo Iván - 2015
, and its positive effect on the development of Mexican municipalities found by Rodriguez-Pose and Palavicini-Corona (2013 … municipalities located in a Mexican state with a long presence of institutions and resulting mechanisms closer to citizens were … favourable effect in one of the studied municipalities than the other is due to differences in the functioning of their formal …
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Contracting out, an empirical study on motives
Wassenaar, Mattheus C.; Groot, Thomas L.; Gradus, Raymond - 2010
Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on … of additional motives and to test these statistically. As we find, municipalities do not regularly evaluate the service … provision of their activities. Only in case of structural underperformance, municipalities consider a change of service provider …
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Local politics of environmental disaster risk management : institutional analysis and lessons from Chile
Valdivieso, Patricio; Andersson, Krister - In: The journal of environment & development : a review of … 26 (2017) 1, pp. 51-81
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Institutional Incentives and Community Policing
Fegley, Tate - 2019
What institutional features encourage community policing? Many police departments across the US have attempted to implement a community-oriented policing philosophy. The stated goals are to build greater trust between the police and the community, maintain order and quality of life, and solve...
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State-Owned Enterprises as Actors : An Institutional Work Framework
Butzbach, Olivier; Fuller, Douglas B.; Schnyder, Gerhard; … - 2021
Although state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are recognized as important economic actors, the literature to date has assumed close state control over SOEs and therefore their passive stance towards institutions. Drawing on the institutional work and historical institutionalism literatures, we...
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Poverty and Economic Development an Approach to the Institutional Analysis (Pobreza y Desarrollo Economico : Una Aproximacion al Ananalisis Institucional) (Spanish)
Chavarro Miranda, Fernando - 2009
This document presents/displays a theoretical revision of the analysis of the poverty in the context of the economic development. It makes a revision of data that allow relating of streamlined form the frequently ignored relations of the poverty by the traditional visions based on the entrance....
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Aestheticism in the theory of custom
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2021
The nature of learning processes as well as evolutionary considerations suggest that aesthetic judgement is of central importance in the formation of custom. Learning and extrapolation rely on evaluations of non-instrumental features like simplicity, analogy, straightforwardness, and clarity....
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Toward a theory of Smart Institutions
Goorha, Prateek; Mohan, Vijay - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-23
We present an analytical approach to institutional analysis that draws inspiration from control process engineering in the physical sciences. We characterize smart institutions as having three foundational features. First, smart institutions are context sensitive and expressly allow for a...
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