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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Institutional economics"”.
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Marketing Institutions of Afforestation Generated Carbon Offsets in Canada: Political Sustainability, Ideology and the New Institutional Economics
… – and how appropriate are the tools of the New Institutional Economics (NIE) in their identification?” I establish the context for discussion by arguing that the NIE, as practiced, seems incapable of providing rigorous analysis while simultaneously responding to questions of power and …
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The contribution of the new Institutional economics in order to avoid opportunistic behaviour in the Packaging supply chain. A business process oriented analysis of the forthcoming german ink ordinance to avoid food safety scares.
… The thesis aims to explain how the theory of New Institutional Economics can be applied to inspire and develop our understanding of the dynamics surrounding the German paper based packaging supply chain (PPSC) behaviours and relationships in view of the future German Ink as well as Mineral Oil …
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The contribution of the New Institutional Economics for the analysis of strategies and its theoretical and practical implications for the motor insurance in Germany in the light of socio-demographic and technical changes by the example of carsharing.
… the impact of the selected theories of the New Institutional Economics in the form of the principal agent, transaction cost and property rights theories onto the current pressing question for motor insurers of how to align themselves strategically in a rapidly changing more and more digital …
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Socio-economic conditions in 14th and 15th century Thessalonike: a new approach
… as an analytical tool the economic theory of New Institutional Economics, which lays significant importance in the study of the institutional framework of societies. The main strands of the thesis are two: firstly, the exploration of the ideological concerns, internal conflicts and response of the …
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Contextual Practices in City Infrastructure Planning in the US and Indonesia
… planning in context, which applies new institutional economics and transaction costs theory for comparative international study, collecting exemplary social infrastructure practices across the global north and south, and contrasting economic zones development and the discretionary …
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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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An Economic Analysis of Cyber Warfare Governance Models
… that can be examined through the lens of New Institutional Economics and commons governance, lending to rigorous and outcomes-based policy analysis. Through the application of Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework, this paper individually evaluates the two governance models …
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Efficiency, investment and bank lending in transition and emerging economies
… ways. First, it adds to the literature on institutional economics and transition economies by confirming the significant role of institutional quality for efficiency and investment in a panel of transition economies. Better institutions are associated with higher efficiency levels and …
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Understanding the International Entrepreneurial Process of Emerging Economy Firms: Evidence from Nigerian SMEs
… four Nigerian firms to investigate how divergent institutional conditions influence the processes of IE from emerging economies to developed economies. The findings of the study depict how entrepreneurial activity from emerging economies to developed economies can involve many sub-activities and …
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Conflicting Perspectives of Socioeconomic Change and the Pan - Africanist Ideal of Self-Determination, 1912 - 2002
… termed as development, starting with New Institutional Economics (NIE). Focusing on NIE, it contrasts recent policy implications maintained in the work of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson (AJR) with that of earlier dependency and modernization perspectives. At the same time …
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Diversity in management accounting practice through the ABC paradox : testing an institutional perspective
… the ability of Burns and Scapens' (2000) Institutional Framework, drawn from Old Institutional Economics, to explain diversity in management accounting practice. The framework contends that management accounting practices can shape, and be shaped by, the taken for granted ways of thinking …
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Clusters and cluster initiatives: The role of collaboration and social capital in building a system of innovation in Ireland.
… in Ireland and advocated a focus on broad institutional factors and the potential of clusters in the development of a national system of innovation (Mjøset 1992). International cluster policy is increasingly focused on raising levels of innovation as a means of improving competitiveness …
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An institutional perspective on management accounting change in the public sector : a case study from Canada
… accounting change by recognizing conflicting institutional forces at the organizational level. An existing Old Institutional Economics-based conceptual framework for management accounting change is advanced and improved upon through the development of a new conceptual framework that …
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The popular music industry in Australia : a study of policy reform and retreat, 1982-1996
… outcomes. Using concepts derived from institutional economics, the thesis shows that the existing popular music industry, in particular multinational record companies, were disinclined to participate in and financially support the policies. Positive outcomes were realised in the …
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Assembling the Chinese City: Production of Place and the Articulation of New Urban Spaces in Wuhan, China
… neoliberal urbanism, market transition, new institutional economics, urban entrepreneurialism, and various discourses surrounding the "world" or "global" city. The resulting strands of China-based urban studies reveal, at best, a partial understanding of the dynamics shaping contemporary …
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The Management Accounting Needs of Small Enterprises And the Role of Small Accounting Practices.
… theory, which tends to be based on neo-classical economics, and the approach used in practice in small firms and SAPs. The research investigates these barriers, assessing the extent to which owner-managers carry out management accounting in small enterprises despite the opportunity costs involved …
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An institutional approach to the development of the textile and clothing clusters in China: the case of Zhejiang Province
… between the complicated interactive process of institutional change and the development of industrial clusters in China. It focuses on the distinctive institutional factors that have allowed the textile and clothing clusters in China to benefit from globalisation while those in other …
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In pursuit of a better legal theory of the company: A data-driven, co-evolutionary and multiple equilibria model
… disciplinary perspectives, namely those of law, economics and management, and on qualitative-empirical evidence. The aim is to evaluate the shareholder primacy model which underlies the current orthodoxy in Anglo-American company law. The thesis argues that, in line with generally accepted …
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The Transition Mechanism of The Limited Access Order - The Emergence And Evolution of Institutions In Kenya
The purpose of this dissertation was to study the institutional transmission mechanism of the limited-access social order in Kenya. This was motivated by the theory of new institutional economics, which views differences in institutions as fundamental in explaining differences in the level of …
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Assessment of ordinary consumer representation in liberalised mobile telecommunications markets: a case study of Nigeria
… public interest and in the context of policy and institutional failure (what happens after policies are adopted?). It focuses on aspects of compliance monitoring and enforcement; areas that do not receive adequate attention in policy literature. The study is conducted using the New Institutional …
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