The perception of childhood as a period of dependence and innocence has a long history. Being strongly associated with the Romantic Movement of eighteenth-century Europe it resonates with more recent Western theories of child development, ideas about child rearing and policies relating to the care and education of children. The advent of a global society, however, demands that we examine and re...

Standard setting has gathered great attention in the academic and policy circles recently. At the heart of the focus are concerns around standard setting organizations and standards essential patents. Questions have been raised about whether there are “too many” standards essential patents, on how and when to access the value of these patents, and whether their owners can cause a potential hold...

Ownership types were proposed to characterize the topology of objects on the heap. They notionally organize objects into boxes, and each box belongs to an object – its owner. In most ownership-based systems, the box protects the object from its environment in some way. Thus, the owner may play the owners-as-dominators role, whereby the owner restricts access to the objects in a box, (i.e. the “...

For some Canadians, the term “housing policy” evokes images of public housing, government subsidies for low-income households, and programs aimed at helping Canada’s unhoused individuals and families. It is easy, though inaccurate, to view housing policy as having this limited scope. After all, 95 percent of Canadian households obtain their housing from the private market. Two-thirds of all hou...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t There is considerable variation across countries in both the extent to which large publicly listed firms are family-owned and the dominance of such family-owned firms in stock markets. The literature presents competing theoretical viewpoints on what influences such country-level variation. On one hand, institutional economists suggest that institutional voi...

Institutional theory is one of the most common theories in management studies. However, there are few articles on sport sustainability literature that adopt an institutional perspective. In addition, no studies have yet been published analyse dynamics environmental football industry through lens theory. This article aims to bridge this gap by investigating effects pressures adoption practices o...

Research Summary Monteiro and Miranda (2022) argue that owners differ in their ability to select work within a particular institutional environment, suggesting “institutional competence” as dimension of ownership competence distinct from what we call governance, matching, timing competence. We agree institutions matter welcome the chance describe role detail. However, rather than treating separ...