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Inspection and efficiency at the eighteenth-century Bank of England
(2015)This article explores the impact of the reforming zeal that emerged during the 1780s on British public finances, in particular, the Bank of England. Although a private company and, therefore, exempt from examination by a ... -
Inspiring school design: an architect's perspective
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Instance Weighted Clustering: Local Outlier Factor and K-Means
(Springer Nature, 2020-05-28)Clustering is an established unsupervised learning method. Substantial research has been carried out in the area of feature weighting, as well instance selection for clustering. Some work has paid attention to instance ... -
Instinct and habit before reason: comparing the views of John Dewey, Friedrich Hayek and Thorstein Veblen
(Elsevier, 2006)This article compares the views of Veblen, Dewey and Hayek on the roles and relations between instinct, habit and reason. From a Darwinian perspective, it is shown that Veblen had a more consistent and developed position ... -
An institutional and evolutionary perspective on health economics
(2008)Neoclassical theoretical approaches dominate modern health economics. However, the peculiarities of healthcare provision are so unusual that neoclassical theory is especially unsuited to the area. Even mainstream health ... -
The institutional antecedents of the assignment of HRM responsibilities to line managers
(2015-07-15)This article uses large-scale international data to examine how much autonomy organizations have to assign human resource management responsibilities to line managers, as indicated in the prescriptions of the literature. ... -
Institutional Complementarities in Comparative Capitalism: A Bibliometric Account
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-02-14)Institutional complementarities help to explain how interdependent institutions not only account for the institutional diversity that can be observed across and within socio-economic systems, but also affect economic ... -
Institutional Complementarities in the Performance of UK and French Cooperative Firms: a Comparative Analysis
(2020-04-05)This thesis attempts to identify institutional arrangements that allow cooperative firms to overcome the underinvestment problem identified in the theoretical literature. The comparative institutional analysis focuses on ... -
An Institutional Economic Analysis of Labor Unions
(2012-04)This paper uses institutional economic theory in the line of Commons and Coase to examine the purposes, economic effects, and social welfare consequences of labor unions. Cross-discipline and cross-national principles of ... -
Institutional Factors and High-Performance Work Organisations (HPWOs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
(Springer Nature, 2019-03-02)This chapter focuses on the institutional factors that facilitate or impede the development of high-performance work organisations (HPWOs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is based on the premise that the adoption of ... -
Institutional legacies and HRM: : similarities and differences in HRM practices in Portugal and Mozambique
(2017-10-11)This is a study of institutional change and continuity, comparing the trajectories followed by Mozambique and its formal colonial power Portugal in HRM, based on two surveys of firm level practices. The colonial power ... -
Institutional spaces and sociable eating: young people, food, and expressions of care
(2020-04-07)Young people’s social relationships are fostered, enacted, and complicated by the discursive and constitutive spatial contexts in which they occur. The focus of our study was the ways the spaces of the school canteen - and ... -
An Institutional wide project-using Electronic voting Systems for assessments- the story so far.
(2012)This paper will consider an institutional perspective of the role-out of an Electronic Voting System (EVS) across a number of schools, with an overarching view that it will enhance the assessment experience for both students ... -
The Institutional, Structural and Agential Embeddedness of Precarity: an Engagement with Guy Standing
(2015-01-15)Guy Standing’s book The Precariat has had a significant impact in stimulating a debate about the changing nature of work across the broad sweep of the global economy. He advances the notion of precarious workers, originally ... -
Institutionalism versus Marxism : Perspectives for Social Science - A Debate Between Geoffrey Hodgson and Alex Callinicos
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)On 30 April 2001 a public debate was held in the Fielder Centre at the University of Hertfordshire, between Alex Callinicos of the University of York and Geoffrey Hodgson of the University of Hertfordshire, on the theme ... -
Institutions and Economic Change
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Institutions and economic change : A critical survey of the new institutional approaches and empirical evidence
(2008)The purpose of this paper is to review the main literature that has analyzed the channels through which institutions influence economic change, hence development. The interest for this topic arises from the relatively ... -
Institutions and Financial System Development in Africa
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-08-27)Recent research suggests that financial system development is important for economic development and for reducing financing constraints of firms (Levine, 2005). Consequently, researchers started investigating the factors ... -
Institutions and individuals : Interaction and evolution
(2007)The conceptualization of the relation between individual and structure is central to social science. After making some key definitions, this paper overviews some recent developments in the social theory of structure and ...