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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Institutional structure"”.
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Rethinking the institutional structure of financial regulation in an era of fintech: the Nigerian case
The study explores why and how to adapt the institutional structure of financial regulation to address the risks, changes, and regulatory challenges of financial technology (Fintech). Drawing on authoritative literature and practical examples from various jurisdictions, including South Africa, …
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Facilitating Sustainable Use of the Rio Grande: A Social-Ecological Perspective
The institutional structure underlying the management framework of the transboundary Rio Grande basin was examined to provide insight into the status and efficacy of the institutional controls that underlie management of the river. This analysis was undertaken in several steps. Changes in …
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Making Power Visible: Racialized Epistemologies, Knowledge (Re) Production and American Sociology
… American Sociology's contemporary process of institutionalized knowledge reproduction, as well as how race structures that process. American Sociology is institutionalized knowledge that is structured into academic departments or an "institutional-structure"(Wallerstein 2007). Prestige …
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Redistribution and sustainability : competing imperatives in the South African hake fishery
… has been transformed. It then discusses the institutional structure and incentive schemes in the fishery and evaluates the economic, social, and environmental impacts of quota redistribution.
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A Challenge to Inclusive Excellence: What We Can Learn from a Jesuit Catholic University
… attention to the ethics of the organization (institutional structure) to fulfill its mission by examining what does it mean that a Jesuit higher education institution strives for "inclusive excellence". From a staff member lens, what does the campus climate tell us about how that impact is …
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Radical restructuring : the conversion of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
… the authoritarian imagery of the existing institutional structure and develops in its place a residential syntax compatible with the surrounding rowhouse neighborhood. This is accomplished by creating an additive fragmentary composition which implies continuity with the adjacent residential …
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School culture and pedagogic practice : a case study of two schools
… dimensions. These can be grouped into institutional structure (comprised of social structure and the structuring of time and space) and communication (comprised of meanings and values, and access to pedagogic knowledge). The study focuses on the ways in which each dimension of school …
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Coordinating Compromise: Information Manipulation and Bicameral Bargaining in the European Union
… must effectively navigate this convoluted institutional structure in order to legislate. Crucially, government ministers in the Council of the European Union and members of the European Parliament seek to forge bicameral bargains in a complex information environment. This study examines how …
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Patents over planning : industrial capital and federal innovation policy
… support. Analysts have emphasized one dominant institutional feature of this system: federal R&D programs lack a central planning mechanism, and are instead highly fragmented and ad hoc. While some analysts have interpreted this institutional structure as a strength, others view the absence of …
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Investigating the Work of ASL Interpreters in Postsecondary Settings
… demands, diverse consumer populations, and the institutional structure of higher education that outline the interpreter’s role and process.
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Fraternity Re-Founded: A 'Pedagogues'
… the chapter’s development from inception to institutional structure, the study identifies how dominant scripts of fraternity masculinity—emotional restraint, hierarchy, competitiveness, and performative toughness—were introduced, challenged, and revised through conflict and deliberation. …
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Viešojo administravimo plėtros strategijos įgyvendinimas Tauragės rajone /
… the state and local government institute and institutional structure, planning, organization and coordination of communications, to establish a reliable control of the system, ensuring optimum power allocation. Improved public administration decisions on individuals who apply to state and …
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The Forgotten Lands: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems in Transition
… monetary system, and the disparities in economic structure. This inquiry argues that a successful completion of the transition process is constrained by the prevailing institutional structure and technological organization, both of which require structural reforms aimed to increase growth in …
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Improving relationships between public transit authorities and medical centers : case studies and applications to the Illinois Medical District (Chicago, Illinois) and Centro Medico (Sun Juan, Puerto Rico)
… the availability of origin-destination data. The institutional structure and physical design of four major medical research centers are examined for successes and flaws, as are the policies and service of the associated transit authority. Observations from these case studies are then applied to …
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Using design structure matrices to improve decentralization urban transportation systems
… engineering analysis technique-the design structure matrix (DSM)-in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of decentralized organizations involved in urban transportation as they deploy technology and attempt to integrate their operations. DSMs alone provide advantageous, …
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Labor Market Outcomes and Employment Policy
… business cycle. The third chapter examines the institutional structure from which power emerges and argues that the Employer of Last Resort would displace the problematic institutions and facilitate an institutional adjustment towards a more inclusive provisioning process.
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CONVERSATIONS ON COLLABORATION: GRADUATE STUDENTS AS WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS IN THE WRITING CENTER
… center gWPAs provided insight into a variety of institutional contexts and experiences present in writing center collaboration. The participants perceived themselves as learning skills that have helped them succeed in faculty, administrative, and personal situations. But there is more than these …
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Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa
… paradigm, the study gathered data through semi-structured interviews involving the PHEI lecturers whose agential association purposively placed them at vantage points to assess the structural and cultural elements that stunt the progression of transformation. The study established that the …
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People, profits, and politics in the Eastern Cape chokka squid fishery: the socio-economics of an unstable resource
… effects of catch volatility flow from the institutional structure of the fishery and the labour contracts in it, specifically the link between fishers' earnings and their catches. These are further linked to the local economy to which the fishery and its workers are closely tied. This …
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