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Near-Real-Time Clinical Trial Accrual Dashboard in a National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center: Mixed Methods Implementation Study. [PDF]

open access: yesJMIR Med Inform
Pepper S   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Performance of Microfinance Institutions-A Macroeconomic and Institutional Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Under the continued effects of global financial crisis where the donor's investment in microfinance sectors has become shrunk, how the macroeconomic factors or the crisis or the macro-institutional factors would affect the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) have become one of the key debates among the policy makers and practitioners.
Katsushi Imai   +4 more
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SMEs, Institutions, and Performance

2013
This chapter addresses at the outset the topic of SMEs and economic development from an institutions perspective. The authors argue that the transaction cost theory is not helpful towards understanding the role that institutions play for SME performance for several reasons.
Jensen, Camilla, Low, Mei Peng
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Competition and the Performance of Microfinance Institutions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This article examines the relationship between competition and the performance of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). We measure competition by constructing a Lerner index. Next, we assess the association between increased competition among MFIs on the one hand and outreach and loan repayment performance of individual MFIs on the other.
Assefa, E, Hermes, N, Meesters, A
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The performative institutional embrace

Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 2012
PurposeThis ESRC‐based research article aims to investigate the effects of performativity on primary schools and the teachers therein. It also aims to show how performativity to maintain and improve the school's position in an educational market affects the teacher relations with their institution and how the school works to embrace its teachers in ...
Bob Jeffrey, Geoff Troman
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

1990
Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the
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