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Framing institutional policies on literacies

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2002
Abstract In at least one fundamental respect, our universities are failing to clarify what they expect of students and what students and other stakeholders can expect of them. This failure concerns communication skills. The present paper identifies particular problems of academic literacy and proposes a coordinated institutional ...
Ian Reid, Lesley Parker
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Leadership effectiveness and institutional frames

Experimental Economics, 2016
AbstractLeadership mechanisms provide a potential means to mitigate social dilemmas, but empirical evidence on the success of such mechanisms is mixed. In this paper, we explore the institutional frame as a relevant factor for the effectiveness of leadership.
Frackenpohl, G., Hillenbrand, A., Kube, S.   +2 more
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Institutional framing: Some experimental evidence

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1998
Abstract Recommendations for broadening experimental analyses to include institutional frames are occurring more frequently in the literature. We report the results of a simple two-stage institutional framing experiment. First, cooperatives and entrepreneur business-strategy frames are generated.
Catherine S Elliott, Donald M Hayward, Sebastian Canon   +2 more
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Institutional framing and financial inclusion

International Journal of Social Economics, 2017
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish the mediating effect of financial literacy in the relationship between institutional framing and financial inclusion among poor households in Uganda with a specific focus on Mokono district. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a cross-sectional design.
George Okello Candiya Bongomin, Joseph Mpeera Ntayi, John C. Munene   +2 more
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Institutional Logics, Moral Frames, and Advocacy

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2012
Studies of advocacy by nonprofit human-service organizations generally fail to distinguish between two major types of advocacy—advocacy for social benefits versus organizational benefits. We show that different organizational factors explain the emphasis on each type of advocacy.
Eve E. Garrow, Yeheskel Hasenfeld
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Institutional framing and perceptions of fairness

Constitutional Political Economy, 1991
This paper's goal is to construct a positive theory of economic fairness. Using the theoretical schema developed by Hurwicz and others, the paper makes precise the notions of an “institution,” “fairness fraiming,” and “institutional framing.” Four fairness propositions yield an important corollary: the economic environment, the operative institution ...
R. Mark Isaac, Deborah Mathieu, Edward E. Zajac   +2 more
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Towards an Alternative Institutional Frame

2009
We have argued that a radical transformation of ICCM is not merely a matter of methodological refinement, but also one of trenchant reconfiguration of the ontological, epistemological, ethical and political commitments of research practice in the field. Such a reframing is a necessary precursor to any reconsideration of methodology and methods.
Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood
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