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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Institutional Formation"”.
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Business and the state in Malawi:the politics of institutional formation, maintenance and change
This dissertation analyses the institutional and organisational evolution of state-business relations in Malawi, from the colonial period (1891-1963) to the first decade of multiparty democracy (1994-2004), through the period of one-party authoritarianism (1964-1993). It contributes to three areas …
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Formation and development of middle-class urban culture and politics : Sheffield 1825-1880.
This thesis examines the formation and development of the Sheffield middle-class through the focus of the Sheffield Club. In chapter two cultural institutions of the town prior to the formation of the Club are examined. The institutional formation and development of the Club is then traced from its …
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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE MAKING OF CORPORATE STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE
… imprinting dynamics and developing a regional, institutional imprinting perspective and (2) to a more nuanced understanding of institutional formation from a historical perspective and at the subnational level. In the third paper, I demonstrate that price regulation during a firm’s founding …
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An economic approach to social interactions and institutions
… A model of social interaction is also a model of institutional formation, since institutional mechanisms arise either as a result of, or in anticipation of, social interaction. Chapter III, "The Government as an Institution of Social Choice," and Chapter IV, "The Monetary System as an Institution …
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The Oil Weapon Moment: The 1973 Oil Embargo and its Impacts on U.S. Energy Politics
This dissertation examines the impacts of the 1973 Arab petrostate oil embargo on U.S. energy politics. I argue that the embargo was the moment that transformed oil from a domestic and highly regulated commodity into a matter of national security and competitive geopolitics. While its likelihood …
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The Global Rules of Art
… to take into account and theorize more fully the institutional diversity of global cultural realms themselves. The dissertation is divided into four parts: the first part clears conceptual ground by discussing aspects of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the field of cultural production that have to be …