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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Economic exchange"”.
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Collaborative alliances and organisational innovation : a study of the innovation process
… pre-existing contingencies i.e. social control, economic exchange and the communicability of knowledge (Scarbrough, 1996). Building on recent advances in institutional theory (see Barley, 1986; 1990; Barley and Tolbert, 1997) and critical theory (Morrow, 1994, Sayer, 1992) the study aims to …
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The impact of proactive personality, economic rewards, and social exchange perceptions on knowledge sharing among engineers in a South Korean IT company
… the impacts of proactive personality, social and economic exchange perceptions on knowledge sharing, will have theoretical implications for researchers in human resource development (HRD) and management, as well as implications for practicing managers and administrators in organizations. This …
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Post-conflict private sector development : promoting durable peace : What are the characteristics and short comings of economic development in post-independent, sub-Saharan Africa : examples from Mozambique?
… reconstruction to enable sustain- able peace and economic development. After a conflict, in an effort to establish a means of survival outside of the war economy, there is a pressing need for the population to have a means by which to provide a livelihood and productively contribute to society. …
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The political economy of property rights : institutions, interests, and economic prosperity
… strong property rights are at the core of modern economic prosperity. Theoretically, property rights reduce the transaction costs of economic exchange and create incentives for innovation and investment. Empirically, there is considerable evidence that strong property rights lead to higher per …
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Collecting Contemporary Art: a visual analysis of a qualitative investigation into patterns of collecting and production
… as a cause for collecting contemporary art. Economic exchange, reputation, a perception of time, and the personal and emotional understanding of objects and material are four patterns that illustrate reasons for collecting contemporary art in conclusion. This analysis is based on a …
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Poor Soils and Rich Folks: Household Economies and Sustainability in Muskoka, 1850-1920
This dissertation examines the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the transformation of the Muskoka region in southcentral Ontario from an Aboriginal place into a renowned tourist mecca between 1850 and 1920. More specifically, it explores how changing social relationships, patterns …
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Transnational Translation: Foreign Language in the Travel Writing of Cooper, Melville, and Twain
… of not only linguistic but also cultural and economic exchange. Charting the changes in American travel to both the "civilized" world of Europe and the "savage" lands of the Southern and Eastern hemispheres, this project will examine the attitudes of cosmopolitanism and colonialism that …
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INTIMATE ENEMIES: VISUAL CULTURE AND U.S.-CUBAN RELATIONS, 1945-2000
… not only by state-to-state diplomacy, economic exchange, and military intervention, but also by the dissemination of popular representations that produced and reinforced the essence of foreign relations at a more intimate level. While traditional diplomatic history tells the story of …
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Towards a New Currency of Economic Criticism
… explores logical processes of value and exchange, particularly economic exchange, in a manner very similar to what Charles Sanders Peirce will call pragmatism several decades later. Dupin's deductive methods and Peirce's abductive logic express the nature of objects in terms of social …
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Landscapes of convergence : a proposal for exchange at the San Diego-Tijuana border
… very different cultural, social, political and economic realities. This thesis is a proposition about exchange. Economic exchange has always been the driving force for interaction between San Diego and Tijuana. Their relationship has operated at a very fundamental level, rooted in a market …
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The Role of Trust in the Divergent Development of Alternative Lending Channels in the UK and Germany
… importance of trust as a necessary condition for economic exchange and the functioning of markets. By contrast, the relationship between trust and variation in financial market practices across national economies has received relatively little attention. This dissertation uses two alternative, …
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Bilateral exchanges in social networks and the design of public institutions
In this thesis, I study bilateral exchanges in social networks. I integrate the market based approach in economics and network based approach in sociology. I also give a joint model of externalities and peer pressure in networks and propose mechanisms to control externalities in networked …
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Communication strategy development in supplier-based environmental uncertainty: the mediating effects of transaction form and interpersonal exchange norms
… (Williamson 1976, 1985, 1986) and Social Exchange Theory (Kelley and Thibaut 1978). Additionally, several forms of interpersonal communication were modeled as behavioral outcomes of these norms. This research explored both the norms of the economic exchange between two firms and the …
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Counterfeit Money or Genuine Gift? Gift, Giving, and Salvation in the Gospel of John
… describes salvation as a gift rather than an economic exchange. Chapter 2 argues that the Fourth Gospel presents God as a unilateral giver. The foundation for this argument is the Prologue of John's Gospel, which sets forth creation, light, life, and grace as unilateral gifts of God. When the …
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Reproductive Migrations: Surrogacy workers and stratified reproduction in St Petersburg
… framed and therefore socially organised as an economic exchange, which gives rise to and reinforces different forms of intersecting reproductive stratifications. These stratifications include biological, social, geographic, geo-political and ethnic dimensions. Of particular novelty is the …
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Spheres Of Semi-Legality: Discourse, Media And Informal Economic Practices In St. Petersburg, Russia (2000-Present)
… in Russia with the socially embedded informal economic practices inherited from the Soviet system, including trust, personal networks, patron-client relationships, system avoidance, bribery, and corruption. Second, it examines how foreign firms operate under these existing economic conditions …
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"Encourager le commerce et répandre les Lumiʹere" : the press, the provinces and the origins of the Revolution in France: 1750-1789
… affiches became an indispensable part of local economic, cultural, and intellectual life while at the same time articulated a world view that was antithetical to the tenets of monarchical absolutism. The first part of the dissertation focuses on the origins, form and contents of the provincial …
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The behavioral theory of contract
… This type of contract dominates the way in which exchange relationships between organizations and individuals are governed in many areas of contemporary life-including, but not limited to, employment, medical treatment, intellectual property licensure, telecommunications, and social networking. …
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An economic approach to social interactions and institutions
Recent mainstream economic theory has been almost totally confined to analyzing situations in which the rules of the game are fully defined. Such rules ordinarily limit the types of social interaction which can occur. In particular, the vast majority of economic writings consist of an indefinite …
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