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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"institutions and institutional change"”.
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From ideals to institutions : institutional entrepreneurship in Mexican small business finance
Through a combination of in-depth research and unique loan-level data, this dissertation explores the mechanisms of intentional institutional change. It argues that current accounts of institutions and institutional change require but do not provide a systematic understanding of the role of …
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PAP Singapore : a case study of stationary bandit in a market economy
… economics tradition is essentially apolitical and is thus inadequate to appraise the inner working mechanism of the Singapore polity, given the pervasive influence of politics in policy decisions. This study therefore synthesizes a new analytical methodology, drawn from neo-institutionalism, to …
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Rethinking viewpoints of investigation on global higher education development: Using the case of China to propose an alternative perspective to understand world higher education
… their pervasive impact on policy making and universities’ behaviours around the world seem to suggest the pursuit of becoming a world-class university has been a global trend in higher education development. However, the single-minded pursuit of world-class status in the rankings may lead …