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Rationality Patterns in Export Promotion Organizations

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Export promotion organizations (EPOs) play an essential role in supporting global trade. Amid escalating global trade tensions, rising tariffs, and increased multipolarity, specialized teams within EPOs assume decision‐making functions guided by distinct rationalities. The aim of this research was to identify the different rationalities within
Aline Tanno   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional theories and public institutions: Traditions and appropriateness [PDF]

open access: yes
Public institutions are organized configurations which are prone to institutionalization processes. They reflect as well as produce and diffuse valuues, norms, cognitions, meanings and identities about life and evolution of society, polity or economy ...
Jean-Claude Thoenig
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From Rating System to Thought Leadership: The Evolution of the Canada Green Building Council

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green Building Social Movement Organizations encourage the adoption of green buildings, primarily by promoting sustainability rating tools. While numerous papers have explored the market impact of these sustainability rating tools, very few have examined either the lengthy and protracted process of their selection and enrollment by ...
J. J. McArthur   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ABORDAGENS INSTITUCIONALISTAS E AS CONTRIBUIÇÕES NA ANÁLISE DE POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS

open access: yesRevista de Políticas Públicas, 2019
The institutionalist approaches have been widely used in academic studies. Considering the importance of these approaches in the analysis of public policies, this study aims to explore the concepts and authors, proposing a reinterpretation in the context
Leticia Andrea Chechi, Cátia Grisa
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Contentious Institutions: An Augmented Rational-Actor Analysis of the Origins and Path Dependency of Welfare State Institutions in the Western Countries [PDF]

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Welfare states in the Western countries have had very similar goals, yet the choice of institutions to approach these shared goals has generated protracted power struggles among major interest groups and great cross-country variation in institutional ...
Korpi, Walter
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The Dangers with Dogmas in Higher Education: Revisiting Dewey's Relationship between Purpose, Academic Freedom, Science, and Faith

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract The tendency to silence higher education teachers and students around the globe who express opinions that others regard as wrong is increasing. This lack of interest in listening to, and at times silencing, people with opposing views raises the question of what makes higher education unique and worth protecting.
Silvia Edling
wiley   +1 more source

Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper examines the research and career of the late Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011), an influential institutionalist economist in the Wisconsin John Commons tradition and well-known historian and methodologist of economics.
Davis, John B.
core   +1 more source

Beyond the market-institutions dichotomy: The institutionalism of Douglass C. North in response to Karl Polanyi's challenge [PDF]

open access: yes
On the basis of the "challenge" North [1997 (1977)] identified in the works of Polanyi, we propose to outline the originality of North's institutionalism, especially in comparison with "new institutionalism" in economics as well as in sociology. Far from
Caroline Vincensini, Claude Didry
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Gender mainstreaming and EU climate change policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article uses feminist institutionalism to examine how gender mainstreaming has been sidelined in European Union (EU) climate change policy. It finds that, with a few exceptions largely emanating from the European Parliament's Committee on Women's ...
Allwood, G
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From dilemmas to paradoxes: A complex systems view of sustainability management in UK universities

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, universities have transformed from passive contributors to active participants in the global sustainability movement. However, the absence of robust theoretical frameworks and larger‐scale samples has limited the progress that universities can make towards becoming sustainable.
Antonia Voigt, Andrew MacLaren
wiley   +1 more source

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