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Entrepreneurial activities in Europe‐oriented institutions

Journal of Managerial Psychology, 1996
Since 1980, there has been an increasing interest in the area of innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development. While the role of educational institutions in the entrepreneurship/new venture creation process has been recognized, little research has been done, particularly outside the US, to identify the type and extent of involvement in this ...
Robert D. Hisrich, Barra O’Cinneide
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Orientations to Institutional Authority in Adolescence

Journal of Moral Education, 1987
AbstractFollowing Weber (1947), we argue that legal socialization entails a commitment to ‘legal-rational’ or institutional authority and that variations in attitudes to such authority emerge in adolescence. Attitudes to institutional authority as represented by the police, the law, and the school or university, were examined in three separate samples ...
Nicholas Emler, Stephen Reicher
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Complexity-Oriented Paradigm in Institutional Economics

AlterEconomics, 2023
Institutional economics has been at the peak of its scientific capabilities long enough to reach midlife crisis. Despite its growing interdisciplinarity and other positive trends, the field is now struggling with the lack of “big ideas” and inertia of its methodological approaches. The article considers the potential of the complexity-oriented paradigm
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Expanding the taxonomy of adult learner orientations: the Institutional orientation

International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1991
The purpose of this research was to determine whether or not a hypothesized Institutional orientation existed as a a learner orientation distinct from those previously identified by Houle (Goal, Activity, Learning) and Burgess (Religious). And if it exists, to what extent it played a significant role in determining the participatory behaviour of adult ...
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Toward User-Oriented University Institutional Repository

Journal of Information Management, 2012
With the understandings on users` needs and behaviors of university institutional repositories, the purpose of this study is to investigate the user behaviors and to provide some suggestions to improve the university institutional repository. To achieve the purpose of this study, a questionnaires survey was conducted with users in three university ...
Na-Ra Lee, Eun-Kyung Chung
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Institutional Competition: An Orientative Framework

1995
In economics, it is generally agreed that competition discloses knowledge, enhances efficiency and restrains power. It is also generally accepted that one main reason for the evolution of modern states has been that certain goods, due to their non-exclusive character, are not supplied by markets — for example, legislation and social services.
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Legal institutions and financial system orientation

Economics Letters, 2005
Abstract This paper explains why weak-institution economies typically adopt bank-oriented financial systems by arguing that bank financing may harden firms' budget constraints (thanks to the unique financial structure of banks, which makes up for the weak corporate governance under inadequate legal institutions).
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Norm-oriented programming of electronic institutions

Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, 2006
Norms constitute a powerful coordination mechanism among heterogeneous agents. We propose means to specify and explicitly manage the normative positions of agents (permissions, prohibitions and obligations), with which distinct deontic notions and their relationships can be captured. Our rule-based formalism includes constraints for more expressiveness
A. García-Camino, J.-A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, C. Sierra, W. Vasconcelos   +3 more
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The Oriental Institute

The Geographical Journal, 1934
F. S., James Henry Breasted
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Multilateral Institutions and Market-Oriented Reform

2006
The world of multinational enterprises is changing dramatically. Their complex and dynamic international context presents them with special challenges – threatening their survival on one hand, and presenting them with unprecedented opportunities on the other.
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