The healthcare sector is one where two co-existing and competing institutional logics – professional and market logics – occur. Following extant research on institutional logics and institutional work, we propose to understand “what microprocesses and institutional practices do institutional actors enact during the implementation of healthcare IT system? What are the impacts of these practices ...

This study explores faculty deposits in institutional repositories (IR) within selected disciplines and identifies the diverse navigational paths to IR sites from library Web site homepages. The statistical relationship between the development of an IR and the presence of a Web site dedicated to the reform of traditional scholarly communication is also explored. The implications for the develop...

This paper concerns women’s life chances by investigating the relationship between women’s employment status and their subjective well-being. Based on the segmented labor market structure in urban China, we divide urban women into three groups, i.e., women working in the public sector, women working in the private sector, and women who are not in the labor market. Analyzing data from the 2013 C...

Introduction In the wake of structural changes promoted by the Bologna process, such as the general implementation of a two-tiered study system, a variety of regulative techniques have been adapted at the institutional level to regulate the practice of studying, such as generic descriptors, personal development planning, progress files etc. These techniques impose systems of documentation and a...

In the article, Felipe VI’s public speeches (from 2014 to 2020) are considered an example of institutional status-oriented discourse. framework critical discourse analysis, thought be a communicative practice aimed at establishing set traditional values and patterns, maintain social order expand certain political ideas. The monarch uses strategies tactics differently depending on addressee. del...

Political discourse in the Norwegian welfare state is characterized by the ambition to establish and secure universal welfare. In comparative terms, it has been quite successful in translating utopian goals to practical politics. The modernization of Norway, more so than most other western countries, has nourished a shared sense of politics as a collective activity and as the privileged tool fo...

When physicians' conflicts of interest arise from ties with drug firms, we should shift our focus to the pharmaceutical industry and improper dependencies that cause institutional corruption. This article analyzes eight forms of improper dependencies on pharma and proposes reforms.