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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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The Research of the Political History of Yemen in the 20th–21stCenturies in the Modern Russian Oriental Studies

Oriental Courier
The paper contains a bibliographical review and historiographical analysis of the Yemeni political history studies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, carried out by Russian researchers in the Soviet and post-Soviet period of Oriental and Arab ...
Grigoriy V. Lukyanov
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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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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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ANTIQUE COINS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES RAS IN GIZA (EGYPT)

Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, 2021
E. Goncharov, S. Malykh
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VYACHESLAV Y. BELOKRENITSKY AND THE JUBILEE EDITION “200 YEARS OF THE INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. PAST AND PRESENT”

Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, 2021
D. Dubrovskaya
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