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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"institutional determinants"”.
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Institutional Determinants of Human Rights Violations Across Political Regimes
This thesis provides a theoretically driven investigation with empirical evidence on the contexts in which judicial and political institutions promote human rights. In the first chapter I argue that judicial independence is not enough for courts to protect human rights. I found the empirical …
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Training Externalities and Institutional Determinants: Assessing Rentention in Ohio Apprenticeship Programs
… the two main focuses of this study.Applying an Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, this study systematically inquires into the factors that contribute to the underdevelopment of apprenticeship programs. Specifically, this study examines how cooperative strategies lead to …
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Institutional Determinants of Fair Value Disclosure: Evidence from Bangladeshi-Listed Companies
… be suitable for developing countries. Applying institutional theory, this study examines Bangladeshi-listed companies’ compliance with the fair value-related disclosure requirements of IFRS and explores various institutional factors that may help to explain the level of compliance. A disclosure …
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Institutional determinants of mandatory disclosure in annual reports of Nigerian listed companies
… investigates the association between firm-level institutional factors and the level of mandatory disclosure in annual reports of Nigerian listed companies. It argues that accounting standards provide the definition of legitimate methods for use in presenting financial statements, and the level of …
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Az Új Közszolgálati Menedzsment intézményi meghatározottsága = Institutional determinants of New Public Management
Disszertációnkban arra kerestük a választ, hogy milyen tényezők befolyásolják az új közszolgálati menedzsment irányzathoz tartozó reformok sikeres bevezetését. Feltételezésünk szerint a társadalmi interakciókat meghatározó intézményi burok, azaz az informális és formális intézmények befolyásolják …
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Between Staying and Leaving: an Exploratory Analysis of Institutional Determinants Affecting Black Male Educator Retention
… 2021-2022 Teacher Follow-Up Survey documenting institutional climate patterns generating hypotheses for future confirmatory research. Using descriptive statistics, this study examined a nationally representative sample of 4,800 educators, including a subsample of 96-100 Black male educators. The …
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The institutional determinants of property regime change in new democracies: the Russian Federation, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
… I argued that chief executives as the institutional setting varied were more or less likely to successfully conduct radical and equitable property reforms. Using distributive theories of institutions, testing of the simpler bivariate model of executive power proved to be indeterminate, …
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Global Citizenship as a Function of Higher Education: The Demographic and Institutional Determinants in a Graduate Student Population
… citizenship scores into both demographic and institutional components. The results of the study suggest that significant variation exists regarding the level of global citizenship among the participants, with scores ranging from 32 to 59 on the (60 point) global citizenship scale. More …
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The dynamics of Zambia's copper value chain
… embedded to identify historical trajectories and institutional determinants. Zambia represents an appropriate case-study given the central role of the copper sector in the country's economy and the heterogeneity of the copper industry ownership structure. My findings are based on 77 interviews …
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The Social Construction of CSR: A Relational View on The Role of CSR Consultants in South Korea
… under which CSR is socially constructed and institutionalized. Existing research that links CSR and institutional theory has mainly focused on macro-institutional determinants and cross-national variations in CSR adoption and practice. Further, while increasing research has explored the …
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Multi-level elections in Western Europe: determinants of voting and the role of salience.
Previous comparative research into the determinants of voting using aggregate data has suffered from two limitations: it relied predominantly on country-level data; and it seldom ventured beyond a consideration of one or two types of elections. In order to overcome these shortcomings, we use an …
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Three essays on institutions and development in sub-Saharan Africa
… the population.;In Chapter 4, I investigate the institutional determinants of the high levels of shadow economic activity present in the sub-Saharan region. My findings show that improved legal and property protection in addition to a sound money supply decreases informality within a given …
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Tree Tenure in Agroforestry Parklands: Implications for the Management, Utilisation and Ecology of Shea and Locust Bean Trees in Northern Ghana
… through the research question: 'how do local institutional arrangements affect the management, utilisation and ecology of indigenous economic trees in agroforestry parklands?' Shea and locust bean trees, two of the most economically, culturally and ecologically important indigenous …
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Determinants Of Women’s Decisions to Modern Contraceptive Use In Tanzania: A Case Study Of Tanga Municipality
The study intended to assess determinants of women’s decision to use modern contraceptive in Tanzania. Tanga municipality was used as a case study. In specific, the study determined the trend of modern contraceptive use for women in the past ten years (from 2004/2005 to 2013/2014); women’s …
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The impact of entrepreneurship education on the relationships between institutional and individual factors and entrepreneurial intention of university graduates: evidence from Zambia
… as a viable career option. Understanding the determinants of entrepreneurial intention (EI), therefore, becomes important. In exploring the determinants of EI, prior studies investigate the effects of individual factors, contextual factors and entrepreneurship education (EE) in isolation from …
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Understanding Local Political Participation In West Africa
<p>A growing body of research suggests that institutional performance affects citizen participation (see Holzner 2010; Bratton, Mattes et al 2005; Hiskey and Bowler 2005). But despite this recognition of the importance of institutions, there is relatively limited research into the institutional …
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Access to irrigation technology and technical efficiency: a comparison of households with and without access to irrigation technology, in ‘Gorogutu district’, Eastern Ethiopia
… so, to explore different socio- economic and institutional determinants of technical efficiency in the study district, an inefficiency effect model was estimated using the one step procedure. The result from the estimated models has shown that farm households in the study area are not …
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Expatriate Adjustment Revisited: An Exploration of the Factors Explaining Expatriate Adjustment in MNCs and UN organizations in Egypt.
… aims to understand the relative influence of institutional, cultural and organizational factors on the adjustment of the United Nations’ (UN) and multinational companies’ expatriates in Egypt. The research makes a contribution to the field of expatriate research through its application of the …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and management
… consists of three essays on financial and institutional determinants of entrepreneurship and the importance of management style. Chapter 1: Direct and Indirect Effects of Cash Transfers on Entrepreneurship In this chapter, I exploit a liquidity shock from a large-scale welfare program in …
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Essays in microfinance: their capital structure and financial inclusion.
… in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to improve institutional and governance quality, whilst implementing Microfinance as a blanket development policy tool. First, within an institutional context, we test for the institutional and firm specific determinants of the funding structure of MFIs. …