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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"informal institutions"”.
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The rule of law in Vietnam: role and impact of informal institutions
… rule of law polity/state in Vietnam, such as the informal institutions (Confucianism) and related to its social and political values. The main argument is that if the rule of law is not compatible with informal institutions rooted in society (e.g., Confucianism), the establishment of, or …
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Ethnic Violence on Kenya's Periphery: Informal Institutions and Local Resilience in Conflict-Affected Communities
… councils of elders, <em>inter alia</em>, enhance informal institutional arrangements that contain escalation. Violence is less likely to escalate in communities where cohesive coalitions provide platforms for threat-monitoring, informal pact making, and enforcement of traditional codes 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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Market imperfections and the effectiveness of subcontracting and informal institutions in export market transactions in Ghana
… posits that in the absence of effective state institutions, informal and private institutional arrangements tend to govern market transactions. However, little is known about the effectiveness of these arrangements in supporting distant and expanding trade transactions, especially, in Africa. …
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The evolution of land and housing markets in informal settlements in Zambia: Analysis of formal and informal institutions.
… development of land and housing markets in an informal settlement, Kanyama, in Zambia to determine the institutional structure that characterises their operation. Taking a new institutionalist approach, the thesis uses historical, rational choice, and sociological institutionalism concepts to …
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STRATEGIC LITIGATION FOR WOMAN'S RIGHTS AT THE WORKPLACE: A LAW AND ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVE.
… identifies a critical gap in understanding how informal institutions—cultural norms, stereotypes, and social expectations—perpetuate workplace discrimination despite robust legal frameworks. The research addresses how Strategic litigation can target these deeper institutional barriers that …
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Drivers and Barriers to the Development of Renewable Energy Industries in the Caribbean
… influence of individual champions, formal and informal institutions. A questionnaire was developed to explore whether generalisations could be made over the 36 political jurisdictions that were included in the study. Multiple linear regression models and a correlation analysis were run that led …
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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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Governance of the drinking water supply service: A case study of three Mexican communities
… governing systems, namely formal and informal. Governance theory attempts to understand the implications of decisions made by formal and informal institutions in order to find suitable ways of management. The theoretical problem this thesis responds to embraces water institutions …
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Entrepreneurship, institutions and economic development : a configurational approach.
… 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 the three variables in formal and informal institutions and ED. …
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The role of institutional systems and government policy in securing inward foreign direct investment in Kuwait. The impact of institutional and government policy systems on the inward foreign direct investment decision in Kuwait
… far, have been disappointing. The formal and informal institutions interact in a variety of ways. However, ineffective formal rules can create different outcomes; particularly, in the presence of strong informal institutions. In such a case, formal rules and procedures are not enforced …
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Reform from above, reinterpretation from below : state making and institutional change in Ghana
… question 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 …
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Exposing institutional influences on entrepreneurship among Kuwaiti youth
This research focuses on the influence of institutions on entrepreneurship among Kuwaiti youth. It aims to capture the role played by institutions on youth entrepreneurship at the backdrop of a dampening ‘spirit’ for it. This research is currently very important due to various economic and …
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Three Essays on External Sources of Corporate Governance
… shareholders. 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. …
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An Assessment of Savings and Credit Groups on Poverty Reduction: A Case of Rural Households in North Unguja”,
… conducted in North Unguja, Zanzibar focussing on informal rural groups, formed by the community members to reduce poverty at the household level. The study used a sample of 204 respondents, and used a cross sectional research design. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the uses …
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The Political Economy and Institutional Foundations of Inequality, Social Mobility and Education Disparities: Essays from the Developing South
… dissertation seeks to understand key underlying institutions (formal and informal) that reproduce inequality and social rigidity in Chile, mainly focusing on vicious dynamics taking place in the realm of education (school and tertiary level). Education is a key institution in society, playing a …
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Tracing hydrosocial change: the social constellations of water access and allocation for oil and gas development in Colorado
… of water governance. Colorado's water allocation institutions, practices and policies relationally shape and are shaped by water's biophysical movement over space and time through a hydrosocial cycle. The hydrosocial cycle (HSC) framework examines social complexity of water governance institutions …
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The role of institutions for the path dependent development of the wind energy industry in Germany and Britain
… It is also argued that both formal and informal institutions play an important role. The contribution to knowledge lies in the unique combination of a path dependency perspective with an institutional focus and the proposition of two frameworks to examine the relationships between the …
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Institutional change in the forest sector : the Russian experience
… 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 informal institutions, which the recent reform carried out by the state also failed to transform. Using the case …
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