Institutional economists concerned with rules often focus on the trade-off between individuals and social incentives. This paper argues that the real trade-off that individuals face is between the organizations they belong to in contrast to social rules, and asks when do individuals find it in their interests to act in the interests of their organizations and when do they support impersonal rul...

In this paper entrepreneurs are defined as agents who bring about economic change by combining their own effort with other factors of production in search of economic rents. The institutional setup is argued to determine both the supply and direction of entrepreneurial activity. Four key institutions are explored more closely: property rights protection, savings policies, taxation and the regul...

On the one hand, extension of ordinary institution theory, known as theory stratified institutions, is a general axiomatic approach to model theories where satisfaction parameterized by states models. other 3/2-institutions an that accommodates partiality signature morphisms and its syntactic semantic effects. The latter motivated applications conceptual blending software evolution. In this pap...

present research seeks to review factors affecting responsiveness of training organizations to society network evolution. data from 500 directors and deputies of secondary schools in the city of tehran using stratified random sampling gathered through a questionnaire and analyzed using structural equation modeling. reliability of this questionnaire was calculated using cronbach's alpha at ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the students' attitudes towards cultural activities and institutions in the university to improve it. This study was based on a survey method along with self-assessment questionnaire and stratified random sampling among 350 university students in the first semester of the academic year 1392-1391. For the validity and reliability of the questionnaire, face v...

Institutions were introduced by Goguen and Burstall 8, 9, 10, 11] to formally capture the notion of logical system. Interpreting institutions as functors, and morphisms and representations of institutions as natural transformations, we give elegant proofs for the completeness of the categories of institutions with morphisms and representations, respectively, show that the duality between morphi...

The Semantic Web is a vision of enabling software agents to autonomously understand, process and integrate Web resources. This ability is based on semantically marking up Web resources using ontologies. Ontology languages are based on Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema (RDFS), which form the foundation of the Semantic Web. In this paper, we define the RDF framework in terms of ...

Abstract: This paper explores the link between crime and corruption, compares their magnitudes, determinants and their effects on growth rates. The study uses a large cross country data set containing individual responses to questions on crime and corruption along with information on the respondents’ characteristics. This data set is supplemented by country level indicators from a variety of so...