Afterword: Dismantling Institutional Barriers

Dismantling institutional racism: theory and action.

Despite a strong commitment to promoting social change and liberation, there are few community psychology models for creating systems change to address oppression. Given how embedded racism is in institutions such as healthcare, a significant shift in the system's policies, practices, and procedures is required to address institutional racism and create organizational and institutional change. ...

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For two topics treated in this monograph, there are important recent articles or reports that could not be included in the body of the monograph, primarily because of their recency. The editors take this opportunity to mention some of them here, with apologies for selection bias. The problem posed by the incomplete and possibly inaccurate assessment of the radiation exposure of liquidators is t...

Institutional Barriers and Industry Dynamics

This study demonstrates that new entrants exhibit higher productivity but also higher exit hazard than incumbents in post-liberalization China. We argue this seemingly paradoxical relationship is attributable to institutional barriers, defined as the hindrance in the institutional environment that prevents market selection forces to function. New entrants require higher productivity to compensa...

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Francisco J. Varela was a student and collaborator of Humberto R. Maturana. Their pioneering collaboration on Autopoiesis and Cognition reestablished “processes of living” as the principle topic of biological explorations. This topic had dropped out of the discourse of biology after the work of Jacob von Uexküll. Autopoiesis brought a new framework to biology. I say framework because it was not...

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