Agency, Structure and Institutions
Agency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship
... Institutional entrepreneurs must perceive a crisis and recognize their interdependence. They must convince potential allies that the proposal for a new arrangement is in their interest, then negotiate and trade off the ...
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An assessment of agency theory in the context of higher education institutions
... Introduction In the context of modern higher education today, the government has made dramatic changes to institutions size, structure, funding arrangements, and focus in order to address public concern and ...
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Agency and institutions: The enabling role of individuals social position
... The model that I developed in this paper (see figure 1) highlights how individuals’ social position may enable them to conduct divergent organizational change, i.e., to act as institutional entrepreneurs despite ...
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Agency and institutions in the construction of cross-border innovation spaces
... Third, whilst the discourse around cross-border integration suggests a linear path towards further integration we see that the cross-border activities of universities are for an important part project-based and can also ...
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Institutions and equity structure of foreign affiliates
... weak institutions may deter foreign entry due to increased ...alleviate agency prob- lems and provide sufficient ...with agency costs, and that helps us to understand the ownership struc- tures ...
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Institutions, distributed cognition and agency: rule-following as performative action
... Interestingly, Aoki assigns the public representations to the cognitive dimension of his model. This vindicates an interpretation in the more general distributed cognition framework. In other words, I claim that Aoki’s ...
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Rethinking Structure and Agency in Democratization: Iranian Lessons
... constituencies and limited their efforts to attract segments of the middle class. They either ignored or downplayed the significant role of the lower classes in general and the working class in particular. They did a ...
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Structure, institution, agency, habit and reflexive deliberation
... Consider a labour market. It may well be true that when wage rates increase, demand for labour does not always decrease, that is, there may be no such thing as the law of labour demand. This does not mean that labour ...
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Challenging construction project management institutions: the role and agency of BIM actors
... development of new practices, but that would confirm or maintain the traditional institutions, often due to a lack of time and project structure. Furthermore, BIM actors were attacking standard practices in ...
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Towards a 'pluralist' world order: creative agency and legitimacy in global institutions
... collective agency and legitimacy expressed within some organizationally and socially pluralistic contemporary global governance ...governance institutions, without subordination within the rationalized ...
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Post-communist Welfare Capitalisms: Bringing Institutions and Political Agency Back In
... Any political economy of social policy of transition societies is therefore faced with the somewhat paradoxical co-existence of rapid, radical and irreversible systemic change on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the ...
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Structure, agency and change in the car regime: A review of the literature
... how institutions influence economic performance; Buchanan and Stigler have analysed how deregulated markets may reduce the risk of both market and State ...proposed: institutions and markets are explicitly ...
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The Causal Structure of Conscious Agency
... This project is much larger than can be accomplished here, but I have at least provided a philosophical foundation for this enterprise, along with a schematic demonstration of how to proceed in fleshing out such an ...
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Structure, agency and museum policies
... at the national or organizational level – European and wider international policies, treaties, conventions and standards have an effect on the sector, as do the standards of professional practice that are supported by ...
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A Comparison of the Wholesale Structure and the Agency Structure in Differentiated Markets
... chosen structure in turn tells us something about the industry: this is why it is of importance to understand how a supply and distribution chain is structured and how different outcomes are under different ...
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Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure
... an agency problem develops: the shareholder can divert resources from the operations for his own private benefit, but in doing so he bears the costs of ...the agency costs of inefficient ownership ...
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McAnulla Structure - Agency[1]_copy
... the use of the binary opposition of structure and agency, or of some variation of this. The binary opposition works in explanation through the priveliging of one side of the opposition. It makes one side a ...
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Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure
... capital structure decisions reflect attempts to mitigate agency problems between various ...of agency problems and more generally form unbiased estimates of the cash flows they will ...all ...
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Capital Structure: Informational and Agency Considerations
... When equity is undervalued, managers prefer internal financing to issuing equity to outside investors. Investors would infer that equity issues are from bad firms (those with assets wo[r] ...
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Evolving network structure of academic institutions
... network structure of our home institution, Trinity College, in Hartford, ...community structure of Trinity College and the interdisciplinary centrality of its various departments as they evolve through the ...
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