the first experimental sam for iran was constructed more than three decades ago under the supervision of prof. pyatt. based on this work prof pyatt had observed that the way in which iran was spending oil revenues was likely to exacerbate urban—rural income differentials in iran. in his approach to sam he did not distinguish between factorial and institutional income distributions preferring to...

Space management has been widely examined in commercial facilities, educational facilities, and hospitals but not in China's institutional care facilities. Poor spatial arrangements, such as wasted space, dysfunctionality, and environment mismanagement, are increasing; in turn, the occupancy rate is decreasing due to residential dissatisfaction. To address these problems, this paper's objective...

This article uses a case study of selective drug law enforcement in Cleveland, Ohio, to explore the contours of institutional racism in criminal justice policy and practice. Using the multilevel theoretical framework developed by Ian Haney López (2000) that highlights the processes underlying how institutional racism is manifested, I analyze how and why racially discriminatory arrest and chargi...

Interprofessional education has been defined as “occasions when two or more professions learn from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care” (CAIPE 1997). Much that has been written about interprofessional education (IPE) and the interprofessional team has concentrated on two or at most three professions, primarily medicine, nursing and pharmacy. Educational program...

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...

All opinions expressed here are those of the authors and not those of the Economics Education and Research Consortium Research dissemination by the EERC may include views on policy, but the EERC itself takes no institutional policy positions Though Russia is very rich in natural resources, the share of natural resource rental payments in budget revenues is very low, less than 4% of the consolid...

Institutional Change Institutional approaches to the study of organizations provide an active and fruitful line of (1949) inquiry into how organizations become institutions, contemporary institutional analysis asks how organizations are influenced by institutionalized rules and institutional environments-forces that operate, by definition, above and across organizations. Much research documents...

The aim of this investigation was to look at user groups of institutional repositories. Past research on repository users has focused on authors and depositors at the expense of other users, and little is known about what types of user groups are associated with institutional repositories. This investigation used the research techniques of link analysis and content analysis ...

The study of institutions and innovativeness is presently high on the agenda of the social sciences. There is increasing concern with how a society’s innovativeness is associated with its international competitiveness. And as scholars study why the innovative styles of societies vary there has been increasing concern with how the institutional makeup of a society inuences its particular style ...