The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused, i.e., applied or resorted to for reasons which have little in common with their intended or anticipated purpose. In such incidences institutions become sources of private gains and lose their value-creation role and capacity. We offer a typology of institutional misuse (illus...

The notion of ‘culture’ as an essential attribute of individuals and groups, owed to national or ethnic background, is critiqued in this paper as unhelpful to the project of understanding how diverse participants in virtual learning environments (VLEs) individually and jointly construct a culture of interaction. An alternative conceptualisation of culture in VLEs is proposed, which views online...

In this paper, through the formulation of an alternate conceptual model, author links concepts functional entrepreneurship and institutions, understood as a set categories —formal informal rules— showing complex, dynamic interactive character. Furthermore, aim paper is to introduce exploration concept institutional coordination or positive interaction essential element for neo economics analysi...

BACKGROUND India accounts for 19% of global maternal deaths, three-quarters of which come from nine states. In 2005, India launched a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), to reduce maternal mortality ratio (MMR) through promotion of institutional births. JSY is the largest CCT in the world. In the nine states with relatively lower socioeconomic levels, JSY pr...

This study aims at investigating procedures of semantic and linguistic extraction keywords from metadata documents indexed in the Institutional Repository Unesp. For that purpose, a web crawler was developed, collected 325.181 authors, all fields knowledge, February 28th, 2013 to November 10th, 2021. The preparation collection, analysis environment used Python programming language, composed thr...

Policy-making is regard to be a critical process that shapes the wellbeing and development of societies. It involves creation implementation laws, regulations, programs help governments address complex challenges faced by modern or developing Effective policy-making requires involvement various stakeholders, which entails government officials, interest groups, civil society organizations, publi...

Understanding institutional changes is crucial for environmental management. Here we investigated how institutional changes influenced the process and result of desertification control in northern China between 1949 and 2004. Our analysis was based on a case study of 21 field sites and a meta-analysis of additional 29 sites reported in the literature. Our results show that imposed knowledge-dri...