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Gulewamkulu institutional and organizational factors influencing community development projects in the area of T.A. Chauma in Dedza District, Malawi
The aim of the study is to analyze Gulewamkulu organizational and institutional factors and how they can influence community development projects in...
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An Ethnography of Endogenous Institutional Change in Community-Driven Development
Community-Driven Development (CDD) empowers target communities with control over development resources but is criticized for exogenously establishing...
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The Impact of Institutional Formation on Firms’ Strategic Choices in Knowledge Development, Absorptive Capacity and Vertical Integration
This study examines the impact of institutional shifts on the strategic choices of Russian firms. It proposes and tests hypotheses of how a shift...
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District-level multidimensional poverty and human development in the case of Pakistan: does institutional quality matter?
This study explores the effect of institutional quality on district-level multidimensional poverty and human development by using the spatial...
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Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion: The Role of Institutional Quality
This paper investigates the role of institutional quality in the relationship between mobile money and financial inclusion in Ghana from 2014 to...
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Black Women in the Ivory Tower: Institutional Oppression and Intersectionality
An increasing number of Black females pursue post-baccalaureate degrees to make academia their professional career. However, they frequently face...
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On structural change: practice organizations and institutional logics
This essay explores structural changes in practices through a convergence between a particular version of the institutional logics approach in...
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Measuring the Institutional Capacity of Older Volunteer Organizations in Japan: Comparative Study with the United States
Volunteerism as a civic engagement activity for older adults has grown considerably around the world as countries face population aging and prolonged...
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Natural Resources Abundance and Human Well-Being: the Role of Institutional Quality
This article examines the association between institutional quality, natural resources and multidimensional well-being in Saudi Arabia from 1990 to...
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Income Inequality, Human Capital and Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 10 to investigate the role of quality institutions in the human capital-income inequality nexus....
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Contextualizing Institutional Ethnography
Institutional ethnography (IE) has attained a lot of interest in the Nordic region, and in particular in Norway. This chapter addresses how IE has...
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Impact of Institutional Quality on the Quality of Life in Africa: An Economic Approach
This study examines the impact that institutional quality exerts on the quality of life. Using the 2-step system Generalized Method of Moments...
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The 2015 Refugee Crisis and Institutional Trust in European Countries
Exogenous events have the potential to affect citizens’ risk-perceptions, (in)security sentiments, electoral choices, policy preferences and...
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To reform or to replace? Succession as a mechanism of institutional change in intergovernmental organisations
Given high costs of negotiating formal international institutions, states are widely expected to adapt, reform, and repurpose existing institutions...
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Institutional Overlap in Global Governance and the Design of Intergovernmental Organizations
How does the increasingly dense network of overlapping institutions in global governance affect the design of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)?...
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Political and Institutional Transformations
This chapter presents a political genealogy of urban transformation. It analyses the 30 year history of changing state institutions, with a...
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Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa
Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development, this study explores the local...
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Does ‘social infrastructure’ curb drug addiction? The role of local institutional norms
Research suggests that reducing rates of drug addiction requires a range of physical spaces where drug users and counselors can meet, build...
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On Continuities. Migration and Institutional (Non-)Change
Migration as a driver of cultural change has led not only to reflexions about the role of cultural institutions in producing narratives on belonging...
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Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity: Toward an institutional logics perspective
Scholars theorize the effect of modernization on religious and familial institutions in a parallel way. Some argue that both are irreversibly in...
