The development of marine insurance has been imperative for the expansion of longdistance maritime trade. Without marine insurance, the Dutch Republic would not have been able to enlarge its trade networks and in all likelihood would not have prospered as it did in the early modern era. The emergence and early development of marine insurance in the Netherlands has been fairly well documented. T...

Prescriptive ownership systems generally impose one of two disciplines on programs: either owners-as-dominators, or owners-as-modifiers. In this paper we discuss “owners-as-accessors” — a discipline that is stricter than ownersas-modifiers but more lenient than owners-as-dominators. We provide a concise informal definition of owners-as-accessors, discuss some existing systems that employ this d...

Cooperatively operated businesses, where worker-owners vote democratically on the direction of enterprise, represents an alternative to prevailing capitalist model employer ownership. Mondragon, one most famous cooperative was incubated from a technical college. Despite this precedent, trade education seems be underappreciated in national movement for enterprise. This article sketches instituti...

Protecting the safety and welfare of clinical trial subjects is the primary responsibility of the multidisciplinary ethics committee. In India, ethics committees have come under increasing criticism for functioning as "secret societies unaccountable to the public" (1). Yet, little effort has been made to undertake qualitative research on the ethics review bodies. This article describes the esse...

OBJECTIVE To compare the attitudes toward and perceptions of institutional practices that can influence patient safety between all professional groups at a university medical center. DESIGN A questionnaire measuring nine dimensions of organizational and safety culture was distributed to all hospital workers. Each item was rated on a 1 ('strongly disagree') to 5 ('strongly agree') scale. PAR...

In this paper we discuss how literacy has been positioned within the senior secondary curriculum and how different views of literacy are situated in the curriculum through disciplinary and institutional practices. We discuss a research project where we have drawn on three definitions of literacy – a print-oriented, language oriented or semiotic view – to conduct an linguistic analysis of syllab...

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...