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The Tenuous Role of Institutional Agents

Education and Urban Society, 2007
This article reports on the contradictory role of parent involvement coordinators charged with increasing participation of low-income immigrant parents. This urban ethnographic study investigates the success of one program that engages Latino, Asian, and African American parents in the governance of their Southern California urban elementary school ...
Maria Martinez-Cosio, Rosario Martinez Iannacone   +1 more
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The institutional researcher as change agent

New Directions for Institutional Research, 1981
AbstractIf institutional researchers really want to get their studies used, they must become “change agents”—skillful catalysts and facilitators of data‐based decisions and follow‐through.
Stuart Terrass, Velma Pomrenke
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Institutions and God’s Agents

2017
This chapter starts by questioning any account that would see the Vineyards mere epiphenomenon. It then asks whether, despite its constituent heterogeneity, the Vineyard is held together by either the governing structure of institutions, by an ethic of responsibility, by church growth and management techniques, or by a shared aesthetic.
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Institutional researchers as change agents

New Directions for Institutional Research, 2009
AbstractThe future challenge and opportunity for institutional researchers is serving as change agents. This chapter offers suggestions for how institutional researchers can become change agents and issues calls to action from institutional research professional associations, graduate programs, and managers and practitioners.
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Agentic Organizations in Institutional Environments

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013
This article illustrates that institutions come into being and evolve to coordinate costs and to incentivize economic activities. Conversely, transaction cost, agency cost, and even production cost provide explanations to why organizations deviate from the prescriptions of institutions. Two crucial views help us understand the mechanisms: Organizations
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International Financial Institutions as Agents of Neoliberalism

2018
NEOLIBERALISM
Babb, Sarah, Kentikelenis, Alexander
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Choice and Institutions in Agent Societies

1999
In large anonymous groups, collective action may not be sustained without an 'external' monitoring meta-agency. But, if interactions are not anonymous, a distributed meta-agency may sustain collective action, provided that, within the group, a sufficient initial level of compliance with the shared rules exists.
José Castro Caldas, Helder Coelho
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Norms, Agents and Electronic Institutions

2004
Most of the descriptions of institutions are based in the formal definition of theirnormsand their effect in the actions performed by the members (i.e., the entities that belong to the institution and which follow its norms). With this idea in mind, in this chapter we will analyse the concept ofNorm.To do so, we will analyse the view several branches ...
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Relationships between Actions Performed by Institutional Agents, Human Agents or Software Agents

2010
The paper presents a logical framework for the integration of interactions between institutional agents, human agents and software agents. It is shown, through a case study, that the relationships between actions performed by these three kinds of agents are defined in terms of the Searle's "counts as" concept and their justifications are based on the ...
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Institutional Agents

2020
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