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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"Institutional change"”.
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Three essays on institutional change
… empirically investigate different avenues of institutional change. The introduction opens with a discussion of the topics explored in the three essays and provides an overview of important results from each essay. Essay one is a joint effort with Dr. Andrew Young. In this essay, we examine how …
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Institutional change in Colombia: Camilo Torres.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1969. M.C.P.
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Institutional change in higher education: a case study
The dissertation, "Institutional Change in Higher Education: A Case Study" examines efforts to bring about fundamental institutional change at the University of Natal over a period of some 1 0 years, 1988 to 1997. The case study is characterised as being of an embedded single case design. It is an …
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Institutional change in higher education: a case study
The dissertation, "Institutional Change in Higher Education: A Case Study" examines efforts to bring about fundamental institutional change at the University of Natal over a period of some 1 0 years, 1988 to 1997. The case study is characterised as being of an embedded single case design. It is an …
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The Emergence of Self-Regulatory Organizations as Institutional Change
… organizations remain much a mystery. Research on institutional change suggests that the very organizations that self-regulation scholars identify as most likely to either become or spin off self-regulatory organizations are likely to resist the changes that precipitate self-regulation's emergence …
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Institutional change in the forest sector : the Russian experience
This dissertation explores patterns of institutional change in the Russian forest sector and examines the process of nascency and development of both formal and informal institutions. It argues that development of the Russian forest sector has been pathdependent and significantly influenced by …
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Managing institutional change: architectural technology as a profession in society
This study sets out to explore the need for institutional change management within the setting of a professional body: the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists – CIAT. Even though research has established that there are successful models and processes designed to depict the dynamics …
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Professional development and the police: A study of institutional change
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Sustainable cities and institutional change : the transformation of urban stormwater management
… cities has typically emphasized how this change ought to be achieved, outlining specific interventions in the form of new policies and technologies. Problematically, we know far less about why urban institutions change, when they do, in the support of sustainability objectives. Why have …
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Historical Context, Institutional Change, Organizational Structure, and the Mental Illness Career
… mental illness treatment careers depend on the change and/or stability among differing levels of social structure. Theorists of the mental illness career tend to ignore the role that higher levels of social structural change have on individuals' mental illness career. Researchers using an …
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Prison reform in Massachusetts : a study of the politics of institutional change.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Economic incentives for institutional change: the case of the Virginia Wetlands Act
… provide economic services, and that pressure for institutional change result from changes in demand for these services. A general hypothesis to be tested in the case of the Virginia Wetlands Act is that institutional change to assure protection of ecologically productive wetlands was associated …
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Liberal Arts Colleges During the Great Recession: Examining Organizational Adaptation and Institutional Change
… during the Great Recession of 2007 by examining institutional changes at three private liberal arts colleges and their effects on the institutions' operations. To fulfill this purpose, the study was guided by four research questions that studied the nature of the environmental pressures during …
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Reform from above, reinterpretation from below : state making and institutional change in Ghana
… in the social sciences: How do institutions change? The questions that drive this research include: How does institutional change occur, and how do varied forms of social organization within informal institutions influence institutional reforms in the land sector? The dissertation does this …
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Quiet conflict : social movements, institutional change, and upgrading informal settlements in South Africa
… shown that significant opportunities for formal institutional change occur through relationships of both contestation and collaboration between such movements and state institutions, especially at the local level. Such a relatively underexplored mechanism of institutional reform enables us to …
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The Impact of Prior Communication About Organizational Turbulence On Members’ Perceptions During Institutional Change
… been fully communicated prior to significant institutional change. Communicating levels of organizational turbulence is an important factor, and it is a necessary first step in transformational change. Members’ prior perceptions of organizational turbulence could affect their willingness to …
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Institution: The Control of Social Perception—Toward a Theory of Minority-Directed Institutional Change
… progress toward a theory of minority-directed institutional change. It begins with a review of research on urban sociology and how, despite tremendous technological and legal change, the fact of institutional racism remains. It then reviews relevant portions of Original Institutional Economics …
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