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Understanding risk governance: Introducing sociological neoinstitutionalism and foucauldian governmentality for further theorizing [PDF]
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2011 This article traces the career of risk across prominent theoretical approaches by highlighting their key assumptions and premises, specifically the technical approach found in the physical sciences, and economics, psychology, and sociology in the social sciences. In each discipline, the strengths and limitations of each theoretical approach are pointed
LIM, Wee Kiat
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Understanding Trust from the Perspective of Sociological Neoinstitutionalism: The Interplay of Institutions and Agency [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 Der Beitrag beruht auf der Vorstellung, dass Vertrauen im Rahmen einer "embedded agency" zu verstehen ist, wobei Vertrauensgeber und -empfanger als Akteure den sozialen Kontext, in den sie eingebettet sind, interpretieren. Sofern dieser Kontext institutionalisiert ist, kann Vertrauen durchaus "normal" sein und sehr leicht mit Bezug auf ...
Möllering, Guido
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Gender equality and innovation – towards sustainable development and social innovation using the example of activities undertaken by the European Union [PDF]
Przegląd Europejski, 2023 The main aim of the article is to analyse the importance of gender equality in the context of implementing social innovations and the principles of sustainable development.
Leszek Kwieciński
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NEO-INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2016 The article is devoted to the neo-institutional approach as a methodological basis in the study of electronic government. In this article substantiates the choice of neo-institutional approach to the study of the processes of implementation of ...
Y. I. Vaslavskiy, S. V. Gabuev
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Revista de Ciências da Administração : RCA, 2022 Organisational neoinstitutionalism is formed by a plethora of analytic approaches for understanding the institutions, presenting both macro and micro-sociological perspectives. In the former, the action is defined by the institutions and, in the latter,
Ana Carolina Simões Braga +1 more
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Complexity, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Credit unions are one of the most widely established corporate entities in the financial systems of most of the world’s nations. Their historical support to the financing needs of small savers, as well as their assimilation into the framework of contemporary microfinance, gives them an important specific weight in the economic‐financial literature of ...
Carlos Gabriel Parrales Choez +3 more
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Politics &Policy, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 280-308, April 2021., 2021 Abstract As the world starts reopening following the lockdowns prompted by the COVID‐19 pandemic, regional collaborations and trade matters have resurfaced. While the Brexit (British exit from the EU) negotiations have dominated regional trade headlines, the fate of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement is also being rethought.
Paul Agu Igwe +2 more
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Stitching the Social World: The Processing of Multiple Social Structures in Communication
Socius, 2023 Sociological theory has rarely engaged with the processing of multiple social and cultural structures in communication. The concept of “stitching” is suggested to capture this coprocessing of contexts.
Jan A. Fuhse
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Influence of social-economic institutions on innovative environment development: Russian case study [PDF]
, 1997 One of the important questions for innovative environment development is social-economic institutions, which help to decrease transaction cost and risks in small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Basic institutional framework is represented by a set of
Chistyakova, Natalya Olegovna +3 more
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Parents, individualism and education: three paradigms and four countries
Review of Education, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 693-726, October 2020., 2020 Abstract The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is an important indicator of the increased global importance of education. It defines the goal of education at the level of the child rather than the state, the community or household. The requirement that each child be treated as an individual who can expect to see their ‘personality ...
Ralph Fevre, Isabel Guimarães, Wei Zhao
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