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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the significance of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), ESD implementation faces challenges, especially economic obstacles in a global world. This study explores the drivers and barriers to ESD implementation at two Swedish business and management schools (BMSs).
Alice Chih‐Yi Batiste +1 more
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 107 peer‐reviewed articles on succession planning in African family businesses, offering a conceptual reframing of succession as an institutionally embedded process rather than a discrete managerial task. Moving beyond proceduralist and Eurocentric paradigms, the review integrates institutional theory,
Augustine Okeke
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Defining institutions: taking history seriously [PDF]
, 2015 This paper suggests an alternative list of institutions to that commonly encountered in the literature on institutional logics. This is done as a response to calls for greater clarity about basic terms.
Mutch, A
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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Corporate social responsibility: a myth? The example of the 'Round Table Codes of Conduct' in Germany [PDF]
, 2004 This paper is concerned with why and how multinational companies (MNCs) voluntarily engage in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially in social standards. The first part describes the prevailing perspectives on the CSR debate. Then, with the
Hiss, Stefanie
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Institutions as Knowledge Capital: Ludwig M. Lachmann’s Interpretative Institutionalism [PDF]
, 2006 The paper revisits the socioeconomic theory of the Austrian School economist Ludwig M. Lachmann. By showing that the common claim that Lachmann’s idiosyncratic (read: eclectic and multidisciplinary) approach to economics entails nihilism is unfounded, it
Foss, Nicolai, Garzarelli, Giampaolo
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we apply Wacquant's conceptualization of the ghetto to an analysis of interviews conducted with Roma people living in the state‐enforced camps of Turin, Italy. We illustrate how the elements characterizing a ghetto according to Wacquant (i.e.
Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo
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The Organizational Engine of Rankings: Connecting “New” and “Old” Institutionalism
, 2020 When explaining the ubiquity of rankings, researchers tend to emphasize macro or contextual phenomena, such as the power of or the trust in numbers, neoliberal forces, or a general spirit of competition.
Leopold Ringel +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Shrinking cities are increasingly drawing global attention, but urban shrinkage is seldom considered as an enduring structural condition necessitating a move beyond growth‐centric strategies. The focus often remains on mitigating symptoms rather than embracing the broader implications of long‐term decline. Understanding of what drives decision‐
Marjan Marjanović, Johanna Lilius
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