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Social Theory and Social Structure
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The article was published on 1949-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13688 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social change & Social relation.read more
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Privatization in Emerging Economies: An Agency Theory Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that weak governance and limited protection of minority shareholders intensify traditional principal-agent problems and create unique agency problems (expropriation), and suggest that postprivatization performance can be enhanced by using appropriate ownership, management, and corporate structures that mitigate agency problems in the context of weak governance, and highlight avenues for research.
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Petty Tyranny in Organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of the antecedents of tyrannical management and the effects of tyranny on subordinates is presented, and it is further argued that these effects may trigger a vicious circle which sustains the tyrannical behavior.
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Developing Design Propositions through Research Synthesis
TL;DR: In this article, the CIMO-logic is extended to the design proposition notion, which involves a combination of a problematic Context, for which the design propositions suggests a certain Intervention type, to produce, through specified generative Mechanisms, the intended Outcome(s) of the intended intervention type.
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When do scientists become entrepreneurs? The social structural antecedents of commercial activity in the academic life sciences.
Toby E. Stuart,Waverly W. Ding +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence is found that the orientation toward commercial science of individuals’ colleagues and coauthors, as well as a number of other workplace attributes, significantly influences scientists’ hazards of transitioning to for‐profit science.
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Institutions and economic growth: An historical introduction
TL;DR: In this paper, the interdependence of political and economic institutions is examined against premises in neoclassical theories of economies, which maintain that population and savings are the principal determinants of economic growth.