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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Path dependence"”.
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Path Dependence in Colorado's Renewable Portfolio Standards
… Colorado as a state with renewable path dependency and renewable policy feedback.
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Interest groups, public opinion, and path dependence: how Canada and the U.S diverged on healthcare policy
… opinion survey. I find that a mechanism of path dependence, whereby interest groups and constituencies that participate in policy battles are strengthened or curtailed by their outcomes, weighed disproportionately on the power of the former in the United States. In Canada, path dependence …
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THE INTERPLAY OF STATE AND FIRM IN ZAMBIA: PATH DEPENDENCY IN THE MINING SECTOR
… and firm in Zambia has been contentious since independence from Britain in 1964. Since then attempts to nationalise or curb the power of the mining firms have failed owing to the path dependence of the sector. Path dependence has led to an uneasy equilibrium in the modern day, whereby the optimal …
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The Last Council: Social Security Policymaking as Coalitional Consensus and the 1994-1996 Advisory Council as Institutional Turning Point
… in search of ideational processes and schema in path-dependent, path-shaping, and path-breaking modes of institutional persistence and change. The study is grounded in the historical institutionalist literature, specifically the recent debate about the utility of path dependence frameworks in …
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Evolutionary dynamics of digitized organizational routines
… about the effects of increased digitization on path dependence and interdependence mechanisms, and therefore extends current theory on the evolutionary dynamics of organizational routines by taking into account the effects of three basic phenomena: digitization, path dependence and …
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Modeling and Measuring Affordability as Fitness
… is determined by that set of design search paths followed – it is path dependent. Dynamic mechanisms create, dictate and maintain path dependence. Initial conditions define the start and direction of a path. During subsequent design steps, positive feedback influences the designer to …
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Innovation and Industry Development: Lessons from the British Cotton Textile Industry During the U.S. Civil War
… can influence the innovation rate, which I call path dependence in innovation. The theory suggests that path dependence in innovation may occur at multiple levels of aggregation, such as specific types of technologies within an industry. This motivates an empirical exercise in which I search for …
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State Implementation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: Analyses of Variation In Policy Adoption
… (1) Agenda Setting; (2) Public Need; (3) Path Dependence; and (4) Socio - Political Effects.</p> <p>In this preliminary research study, the models are illustrative of the intricacy of the policy process. Each of the analytic models developed for the project demonstrates one primary …
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Miles to meters an examination of public attitudes towards metric conversion: The 1977 FHWA Highway Metrication Proposal
… nature of the opposition. The influence of path dependence and historical context are also examined, but yield inconclusive results. I also compare letters to the federal government to a sample of newspaper items to conclude that complaints to the government represented a disproportionately …
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The city as an agent for European integration: Tackling social exclusion in greater Paris
… cohesion policy in the European Union through Path Dependence and Multi-Level Governance analysis. The EU community initiatives in the Ile-de-France region illustrate how the European Union developed social cohesion programs to transform social exclusion issues into a supranational tool to …
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The Early Stages of Collaborative Commercialisation of Science: What Enables and Constrains the Development of Generic Technologies
… of science, generic technologies, and path dependence and path creation. Empirical research was conducted between January 2008 and June 2011 within two projects of the Cambridge Integrated Knowledge Centre (CIKC), a technology transfer initiative funded by the Engineering and Physical …
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Topology optimization of multimaterial and multiscale structures beyond elasticity: brittle fracture and ductile plasticity
… sensitivity analysis is developed to handle path-dependence using a reverse adjoint method combined with automatic differentiation. These developments enable the design of diverse multi-alloy systems, including energy-dissipating dampers, load-bearing beams, impact-resistant bumpers, and …
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The Determinants of Customer Perceptions in a Dynamic Business Environment: An Exploratory Analysis of the ASP Business Model
… important theoretical themes of this research - path-dependence and Ansoff's product/ market growth matrix - are taken account of in exploring the influence of the determinants. Web-based questionnaire survey research is conducted together with a documentation study to collect data. Targeting the …
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International Engagement and Performance of New Zealand Firms
… relationships are characterised by substantial path dependence. Firms tend to expand their export horizons sequentially, building on their existing experience and networks. Moreover, there is evidence of path dependence across firms, with entry into new export relationships reflecting …
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Cumulative Disadvantage, Poverty, And The Role Of Community Capitals: A Spatial Analysis Of Uneven Development In The Multi-State Delta Region
… and failures of communities, creating a "path dependence" that goes beyond any one individual's control. There are, however, locally-modifiable characteristics of people in spaces, such as human and social capital. These community capitals can be recognized, and then cultivated to …
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Bits of power : the involvement of municipal electric utilities in broadband services
… as resulting from historical and technological path-dependence, which makes the MEU phenomenon unlikely to be repeated by local governments in non-MEU communities. Additionally, results support that MEUs' likelihood for offering telecommunication services is reduced by regulations explicitly …
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Security sector reform in post-conflict environments: An analysis of coherence and sequencing in Mozambique. Examining Peacebuilding Challenges of Defence, Police and Justice Reforms in a Neo-Liberal Era
… Throughout, patterns of critical juncture and path dependence are identified that have influenced the adaptation of powerful local players to external and domestic pressures which resulted in political and institutional bricolage. The thesis also looks at how the sequencing of Mozambique’s …
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The Post-9/11 Federal Homeland Security Paradigm and the Adoptive Capacity of Public Administration Theory and Practice
… analyzing the two likely explanatory concepts: path dependence and bureaucratic management. It is hoped that operationalization of these explanatory models will facilitate the development of future surveys to allow for a greater understanding of local responses.The questionnaire was mailed to …
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L¿ 'AMNISTIA' IN ETÀ CLASSICA ED ELLENISTICA. STRATEGIE DI RICONCILIAZIONE E RIDEFINIZIONE DELLA CITTADINANZA A SEGUITO DI CONFLITTI INTERNI
… teorico fa ricorso al modello della 'path dependence', spiegando la necessità di riforme istituzionali (tra cui la παραγραφή e la limitazione temporale della retroattività legislativa) come strategie di 'conversion', atte a reinterpretare norme esistenti. Il secondo capitolo …
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