Small Firms and the Failure of National Skills Policies: Adopting an Institutional Perspective
, 2015 Both skills and small firms have been increasingly prominent in policy agendas across the world in recent years. Skills are now seen as being crucial to economic prosperity, yet evidence consistently shows much lower levels of training, on average, in ...
Daniel Bishop
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An institutional perspective on the micro-macro link.
REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales, 2002 The micro-macro link may be regarded as a dynamic process in which actors interpret local patterns of relations as indicators or elements of an overarching structure, communicate their interpretations, and adjust their relations to the overall structure ...
de Nooy, Wouter
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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS AND INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE: A ROMANIAN PERSPECTIVE
Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Серія Економіка, 2015 Our paper uses statistical tools with the aim of empirically investigating the institutional determinants of foreign direct in- vestments (FDI) in Romania.
L. Belascu, A. Horobet
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The Quantum State of Inflationary Perturbations [PDF]
, 2012 This article reviews the properties of the quantum state of inflationary perturbations. After a brief description of the inflationary background, the wavefunction of the Mukhanov-Sasaki variable is calculated and shown to be that of a strongly squeezed state.
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Can scientists and their institutions become their own open access publishers? [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 This article offers a personal perspective on the current state of academic publishing, and posits that the scientific community is beset with journals that contribute little valuable knowledge, overload the community's capacity for high-quality peer review, and waste resources.
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Private Sector Investment and Sustainable Development: The Current and Potential Role of Institutional Investors, Companies, Banks and Foundations in Sustainable Development [PDF]
, 2015 This paper seeks to provide the Financing for Development process with a perspective on the role institutional investors, companies, and foundations can play in the design and implementation of a financing strategy for global sustainability.
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European Monetary Union: an old Keynesian guide to issues
PSL Quarterly Review, 2013 The work adopts an old Keynesian perspective to evaluate the EMU. Such a perspective raises concerns with the effectiveness of monetary policy, the feasibility of monetary policy, and the political economy of monetary policy.
T.I. PALLEY
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LEP2 physics and event generators [PDF]
arXiv, 1996 The present status of four-fermion calculations and event generators for LEP2 physics is reviewed. Perspectives for future improvements are given.
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Institutional theory in tourism research: new opportunities from an evolving theory
Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo, 2017 In this perspective paper, we bring institutional theory to the attention of tourism research as a valid and evolving theory that can contribute to tourism analysis.
Christian Falaster +2 more
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Variational approach to dynamics of quantum fields [PDF]
arXiv, 2001 Lectures deliverd at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on QCD Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter, Cargese, Aug. 6 - 18, 2001. Dedicated to the memory of Dominique Vautherin.
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