This paper builds on recent contributions to understanding conditions of institutional complexity by developing a theoretical framework to elaborate the interdependencies between actions, contexts and institutional logics. Our aim is to refine existing explanations of how actors inhabit complex institutional settings. Drawing on a critical realist ontology, we treat agency and structure as anal...

BACKGROUND The literature on integration indicates the need for an enhanced theorization of institutional integration. This article proposes path dependence as an analytical framework to study the systems in which integration takes place. PURPOSE PRISMA proposes a model for integrating health and social care services for older adults. This model was initially tested in Quebec. The PRISMA Fran...

We investigate a theoretical model that combines two streams of research in IT adoption. The first is the institutional theory perspective, which provides the institutional pressures that induce a firm to align itself with the members of the institution of which it is a part. The second is the learning perspective on organization, which has been used to study firm characteristics that promote t...

BACKGROUND Evidence-informed decision-making for health is far from the norm, particularly in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Health policy and systems research (HPSR) has an important role in providing the context-sensitive and -relevant evidence that is needed. However, there remain significant challenges both on the supply side, in terms of capacity for generation of policy-re...

In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Common-pool resources Collective action Social–ecological systems Small-scal...

One of the key ambitions universities around world is to improve educational design and delivery benefit their students. Many acknowledge that they need educate students for a future characterised by high levels uncertainty in which individuals possess substantial confidence competencies navigate. While much attention has been given innovation design, this paper focuses more on organizational c...

The obvious is often not self-explanatory. We obviously interact with others in a meaningful way. This presupposes that we can predict reasonably well what another person is going to do, and how he is going to react to our own moves. Yet psychology demonstrates the almost unlimited plasticity of human behavioural dispositions. Why are we nonetheless able to interact successfully? This book clai...

This paper examines the relationship between capital structure and the inner structure of pyramid in an emerging market economy country. The author uses firm-level panel data of Chinese listed companies to analyze the influence of the inner structure of pyramid on capital structure and the differences between different institutional environments of that influence deeply. His results show that t...