UNDERSTANDING economic change including everything from the rise of the Western world to the demise of the Soviet Union requires that we cast a net much broader than purely economic change because it is a result of changes (1) in the quantity and quality of human beings; (2) in the stock of human knowledge particularly as applied to the human command over nature; and (3) in the institutional fr...

This paper looks at the management accounting and control system (MACS) changes in the Housing Authority of Fiji (hereafter HA) from the wider social and political dimensions. The HA has been set up to provide affordable shelter and mortgage finance for low and middle-income earners in Fiji. The subject organisation has been able to meet the demands of customers. Presently, the HA has been able...

This paper reviews how Open Access policies (OA) and Institutional Repositories (IR) might be portrayed as agents of change within the realm of scholarly publishing. Using commentary on academic publishing as background, commentary that sees OA and IR as optimal and inevitable, and beneficially disruptive of the existing system, two theoretical approaches are presented as ways of providing a mo...

Increasingly, natural resource conservation programs refer to participation and local community involvement as one of the necessary prerequisites for sustainable resource management. In frameworks of adaptive comanagement, the theory of participatory conservation plays a central role in the democratization of decisionmaking authority and equitable distribution of benefits and burdens. We observ...

sociology is a multi-paradigm science. the main components of the paradigm include epistemic system, theoretical schools, raised patterns, research strategies, research methods and techniques, and facts under investigation. to be able to reach a satisfactory achievement, sociology has to obtain two main components, i.e. to be part of a paradigm and institutional autonomy. iranian sociology of t...

T THE TERM “new institutional economics” is in widespread use and is associated with a vast literature. Clearly, the temporal adjective in the adopted title of this broad set of postwar theories and approaches has been intended to demarcate the “new institutional economics” from the “old” institutional economics of Thorstein Veblen, John Commons, and Wesley Mitchell. This earlier institutionali...

A generalized climate of distrust in political institutions is not functional to healthy democracies. With the advent social media, recent scholarly efforts attempt better understand people's conspiracy theory beliefs inhibiting institutional trust. This study contributes this literature by considering direct antecedent effects uncertainty avoidance and moderating role active media use—SMU (i.e...

1 Policy-making is an essential part of every government. Each government must enact policies based on their own philosophies, backgrounds, and situations. Many governments develop very similar tendencies in policy-making while other governments have quite different tendencies about policy-making. Through looking at the different trends of policy-making in multiple countries, there are multiple...

Are the politics of economic regulation contingent on institutions? Drawing on arguments about institutional mediation and the institutional bases of rational action, we explore how institutions shape the dynamics invoked in two theories of regulation. We argue that institutional arrangements affect both the clarity and the content of group interests in regulation. Event history analyses of U.S...