The present work displays an investigation focused on the understanding of sociology institutionalization in Mexico, and if it is possible to be spoken of an academic crisis of sociology, as it is handled nowadays, besides an investigation that takes care of specific values of the sociological knowledge in the reality of each region in Mexico. This approach starts, firstly, in a study of the so...

Constructivist approaches to the emergence and stability of collective identities are now widely accepted. But few of the assumptions of constructivist theory regarding repertoires of identities and their mutability in response to changing circumstances have been examined or even articulated. The article shows how different conditions of a fluid and changing environment affect the stabilization...

The adoption of e-commerce technologies is a progressively interactive multi-phase process. Existing literature on the adoption has not been paid appropriately attention on this nature. This study distinguishes the difference between initial adoption and institutionalization of e-procurement and provides a particular focus on the investigation of determinants of e-procurement adoption in constr...

Accessibility and health service coverage problems impact many low income countries. Telemedicine is one of the technologies that can play a significant role in reducing these healthcare related issues. The study is primarily aimed at exploring how institutionalization of a system occurs and its impact on system use. This study is informed by theories on institution and institutional work to de...

Previous research suggests that mass incarceration in the United States may have contributed to lower rates of violent crime since the 1990s but, surprisingly, finds no evidence of an effect of imprisonment on violent crime prior to 1991. This raises what Steven Levitt has called “a real puzzle.” This study offers the solution to the puzzle: the error in all prior studies is that they focus exc...

AIM To investigate (i) whether loneliness increases in old age, and if so, whether it relates to ageing itself, to time trends or to cohort effects and (ii) the relationship between changes in institutionalization, partner status and health and loneliness. METHODS 939 men born between 1900 and 1920 completed the De Jong-Gierveld Loneliness Scale, and answered questions about their partner sta...

This paper raises a challenge for those who assume that corporate social responsibility and good corporate governance naturally go hand-in-hand. The recent spate of corporate scandals in the United States and elsewhere has dramatized, once again, the severity of the agency problems that may arise between managers and shareholders. These scandals remind us that even if we adopt an extremely narr...