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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"neo-institutionalism"”.
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Politics and the American clergy: Sincere shepherds or strategic saints?
… behavior. Drawing on three theories derived from neo-institutionalism, I assess reference group influence on clergy in two mainline Protestant denominations-the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Episcopal Church, USA. In addition to their wider and more traditional socializing influence, reference …
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The grammar of money : an analytical account of money as a discursive institution in light of the practice of complementary currencies
… analysis of currencies with the methodologies of neo-institutionalism, practice theory and critical discourse analysis. This will here be demonstrated in a transdisciplinary triangulation concerning three sets of data from the diverse field of complementary currencies, the publications of the Bank …
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Exploring the impact of organisational and environmental factors on the behaviour of English universities
… according to a theoretical framework, drawn from Neo-Institutionalism and Resource Dependency theory, which seeks to understand how the internal and external contexts of organisations interact and influence the way in which they respond to pressure to change.The results of the literature review …
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Convergence, coooperation, coordination : higher education governance and the Bologna process
… analysis using multiple theoretical frameworks (neo-institutionalism and IR integration theories), this paper examines the driving forces behind the extensive university reform, asking which actors have been the dominant agenda-setters during the initial phases of the Bologna process. European …
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Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in the Banking Sector: Evidence from Bangladesh
… on Abrahamson’s (1991) diffusion typology, “neo-institutionalism” (Greenwood and Hinings, 1996) and “MCS package” (Malmi and Brown, 2008) to address the ERM phenomena. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews and triangulated through secondary materials. The evidence shows that …
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PAP Singapore : a case study of stationary bandit in a market economy
… economy. The conventional methodology in the neoclassical 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 …
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The University in the Knowledge Society: A Neo-Institutionalist Approach to the ‘Idea’ of the University
… framed by the sociological school of neo-institutionalism. This is a perspective within institutional theory which views institutions as not passive recipients of social values but able to dictate their own ideals upon society. The university in this view becomes a ‘primary …
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A Critical Analysis of the Oversight Role and Function of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in Promoting Accountability in South Africa’s Public Sector
… considering various theories, the study employs Institutionalism as preferred theory of choice because of its explanatory strength regarding oversight issues. The strands of institutional theory used in this study is the blending of neo-institutionalism and historical institutional. …
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The Chaos of Convergence: A Study of the Process of Decay, Change, and Transformation within the Telephone Policy Subsystem of the United States
This dissertation was developed as two distinct themes within one final study. The first theme is located within Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. These two chapters examine the nature of both policy analysis and organizational theory in terms of their development within the American versions of Public …
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Umsetzungsbedingungen für eine europäische Gleichstellungsstrategie im post-kommunistischen Kontext : Gender Mainstreaming in Estland
… Single Case Studie verortet, die sich an neo-institutionalistischen Ansätzen orientiert. Teil II der Arbeit führt in das Fallbeispiel Estland ein: Es werden drei identifizierte Interpretationsmuster dargestellt anhand derer in Estland die Vergangenheit als besetzte Nation und die Gegenwart …
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Kleinhandel unter schwierigen institutionellen Voraussetzungen – Reaktionen, Strategien und Lösungen der Händler auf dem Chisokone-Markt in Kitwe/Sambia
… and appearing institutions. The concept of neo-institutionalism takes into account by means of the decoupling theory that institutions may vary significantly in their actual procedures from their principal formal structure. This subsequently presented concept comes closer to the actual …