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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"formal institutions"”.
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Lending to small - scale farmers in South Africa: a case for best practices in formal institutions
… of the agricultural sector. The challenge for formal financial institutions is to provide agricultural credit that meets the unique demands of the entire agricultural sector (both commercial and emerging sectors). Although small-scale farmers face a number of challenges, lack of capital for …
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An analysis of the process of ascertainment and application of customary law in the formal institutions of adjudication: Nigeria and South Africa
Judges of formal courts in Nigeria and South Africa do not easily have access to the contents of customary law they are required to apply in the course of adjudication and this has been a major challenge. This thesis examines the processes that courts adopt in the ascertainment and application of …
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Participatory autocracy : private entrepreneurs, legislatures, and property protection in China
… in authoritarian systems seek office in formal institutions, which are often dismissed as weak and ineffective. I argue that individuals seek office mainly to protect their property from government expropriation in China. In contrast to prior work, I argue that instead of being passive …
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Engaging Bad Governments: Resource Groups and Patterns of Engagement in Bangladesh
… relationships are governed simultaneously by informal institutions of accountability and informal institutions of exchange; the former allow actors to reinforce formal rules when badly-performing institutions deviate from them, and the latter permit actors to navigate weak formal institutions …
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Three Essays on External Sources of Corporate Governance
… Other external sources can include informal institutions which can shape goals as well as suggested by institutional theory, effectively constrain human behavior. In my first essay, I argue that foreign direct investors can act as agents of change in corporate governance. Investigating …
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Development as unfreedom : the role of mine migrant labour institutions as agents of development in the Transkei, 1886-1980s
… - this thesis offers a view of migrant labour institutions in terms of how they created and engendered deprivation and unfreedom in the Transkei. It is an attempt to understand our ‘developmental past’ and to understand how development in the Transkei has been frustrated and inhibited by formal …
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Enterprise Survival and Growth: Classification, Structures, and Policy Development in Nigeria.
Research on Informal Economy (IE) has advanced over recent years and gained increasing popularity. Despite this interest, there is a dearth of research exploring the institutionalisation of Informal Economy Entrepreneurs (IEEs), particularly enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and implications …
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When Rules and Common Sense Collide: Expressions, Roots, and Impact of Informal Civil Society in Ukraine
… on a general lack of citizen participation in formal organizations. This dissertation argues that such assessment of civil society fails to recognize the role of below-the-radar civic engagement in contexts where informal practices permeate economic, political and social spheres.</p> <p>Based …
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THREE ESSAYS ON SOCIAL NETWORKS, CORPORATE MISCONDUCT, AND FIRM VALUE
… networks influence their decisions that confront formal institutions in corporate financial misconduct. This study finds that these firms tend to engage in illegal or aggressive financial activities while simultaneously avoiding other financial misconduct to comply with the market regulations. The …
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Between informal and formal politics : Neopatrimonialism and party development in post-Soviet Kazakhstan
… with exploring the relationship between informal forms of political behaviour and relations and the development of formal institutions in post Soviet Central Asian states as a way to explain the development of authoritarianism in the region. It moves the debate on from current scholarship …
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GROUP GOVERNANCE IN A THIRD LINE ENTERPRISE
… BEHAVIORS BY MEANS OF RIGID ENFORCEMENT OF THE FORMAL INSTITUTIONS. INSTEAD, THEY TOLERATED THESE MISBEHAVIORS AND MADE USE OF THEM TO MAINTAIN THE GROUP?S PRODUCTION. GROUP LEADERS? TOLERATION WAS ROOTED IN THREE CONTEXTUAL CONDITIONS: GEOGRAPHICAL ISOLATION, INTENSIVE INFORMAL SOCIAL RELATIONS …
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ADVANCING YOUNG PEOPLE?S METHODOLOGIES: ARTICULATING CITIZENSHIP DISCOURSES WITHIN ?SAFE SPACES? THROUGH THEATRE
… THESE METHODS CREATE A ?SAFE SPACE? OUTSIDE OF FORMAL INSTITUTIONS FOR THEM TO ARTICULATE THEIR VIEWS AND BYPASS ISSUES OF SELF-CENSORSHIP IN A PUNITIVE POLITICAL CLIMATE. THIS WAS EXECUTED THROUGH A THEATRE WORKSHOP WITH A SMALL GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE (AGES 14-19 YEARS OLD) THAT COMPRISED …
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The development of Malaysian petrochemical complexes of the East-Coast industrial corridor
… The key research question is on the effect of formal institutions on industrial land supply. The empirical research was carried out in Kerteh and Gebeng in the Malaysian East Coast region. Despite being isolated from nation’s mainstream economic activities as well as politically distinctive, …
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Entrepreneurship, institutions and economic development : a configurational approach.
… (EA). In particular, it examines the effect of formal institutional development on EA depending on differences in informal constraints and economic development (ED). Though acknowledged in part within extant theory, little empirical research has documented the simultaneous interaction of all of …
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Towards citizenship : experiences of seeking asylum on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity in the United States
… in the United States, the notion of gaining formal status as a refugee and ultimately U.S. citizenship is often a long, challenging process. An extended waiting time for asylum adjudication exasperates gaps in protection within an overall system of laws and policies that lean toward …
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The Right to a Home
… of homelessness, in large part, lies with the formal institutions of the state. I examine the ideal of equality of opportunity, particularly what I call formal equality of opportunity. I isolate three key issues with this conception and develop a concept that I call real equality of …
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Influence of formal and informal institutions on outsourcing of public construction projects in Uganda.
… construction (OPC) projects is influenced by institutions and why. Extant literature focuses on explaining how outsourcing through competition improves efficiency with limited treatment of how institutions actually influence the OPC projects. The thesis develops an analytical framework for …
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Primary health care facilities for street children : a study of the street children's requirements in designing community hospitals in Angola
… children's preferences and attitudes towards formal institutions in a context where th'e main cause of family disintegration was war. The study concluded that street children's health needs in Angola would be better catered for through independent primary health centres provided with partial …
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A comparative institutional analysis of public and private operations in the urban water sector
… the investigation of the duality of agency and institutions, a composite analytical framework is devised by integrating the Williamsonian tradition of comparative institutional analysis with the policy networks tradition, and adapted to reflect the characteristics of transactions in the urban …
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Entrepreneurship and Institutions in Innovation systems research: Evidence from the Nigerian film industry
… increased productivity, the notion of deficient institutions becomes more important. Prior research on innovation systems has adopted a broad treatment of institutions that has resulted in an omission of the impact that deficient institutions have on implementing innovation. Towards providing a …
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