Revisiting institutional punishment in the $N$-person prisoner's dilemma [PDF]
The conflict between individual and collective interests makes fostering cooperation in human societies a challenging task, requiring drastic measures such as the establishment of sanctioning institutions. These institutions are costly because they have to be maintained regardless of the presence or absence of offenders.
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Communities of Scholars: A Conceptual Scheme of Knowledge Production
This conceptual paper provides a meta-theoretical synthesis describing knowledge production processes in the sociological discipline. The first part of this paper gives an overview of recent studies exploring the sociological knowledge space with an ...
Konstantinos Zougris
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"You Shall Not Pass" without a Jab: An Institutional Theory Perspective to COVID-19 Vaccine Passport Policies. [PDF]
Arakpogun EO, Rodrigo P, Olan F.
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Phase diagram of mixed system of ferroelectric relaxors in the random field theory framework [PDF]
We suggest a random field based model for calculation of physical properties of mixed ferroelectric relaxors. Our model naturally incorporates the different orientations of electric dipoles (related to different solid solution components) as well as the contribution of nonlinear and correlation effects of random field.
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Ross Studies in the early history of institutions. III. The theory of village communities [PDF]
V. Ehrenberg
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Measuring entrepreneurial orientation and institutional theory for informal enterprises: scale validation. [PDF]
Kabir I, Abdullahi YA, Naqshbandi MM.
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The Architecture of Truth [PDF]
The theory of institutions is framed as an indexed/fibered duality, where the indexed aspect specifies the fibered aspect. Tarski represented truth in terms of a satisfaction relation. The theory of institutions encodes satisfaction as its core architecture in the indexed aspect.
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Implicit Kripke Semantics and Ultraproducts in Stratified Institutions [PDF]
We propose stratified institutions (a decade old generalised version of the theory of institutions of Goguen and Burstall) as a fully abstract model theoretic approach to modal logic. This allows for a uniform treatment of model theoretic aspects across the great multiplicity of contemporary modal logic systems.
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Prison methods in New York state: A contribution to the study of the theory and practice of correctional institutions in New York state. By Philip Klein, Ph.d. columbia university, N. Y., longmans, green & co., agents, 1920. [PDF]
Louis N. Robinson
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Methodological tools for researching institutional influences on organizations [PDF]
Institutional theory predicts that organizations consider social fitness and conformity to institutional environments as more important then technical and economic needs and this social conformity over time results in homogenization on the macro level ...
Zhylinska Oksana I. , Aksom Herman I.
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