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Capability Traps and Self-Confirming Attribution Errors in the Dynamics of Process Improvement:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted an inductive study of one firm's attempt to improve two of its core business processes, focusing on the factors that support or inhibit internally focused change.
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The Effects of Charges of Corruption on Voting Behavior in Congressional Elections
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TL;DR: In this paper, the electoral impact of charges of corruption on candidates in contests for the U.S. House of Representatives in five elections from 1968 to 1978 was assessed. And the type of corruption charge is an important determinant of vote loss.
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The Theory of Institutional Design: Institutions and Their Design
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors sketch the contours of the existing literature as it touches upon theories of institutional design, and identify a minimalist definition of "institutions" upon which most institutionalists, old and new and across a range of disciplines, can broadly agree.
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Obeying doctor's orders: A view from the other side
TL;DR: Studies of patients' “compliance” with doctors' instructions have generally used an ideal image of the patient as a passive, obedient and unquestioning recipient of medical instructions, which is seen as irrational in the light of medical rationality.
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2004 American Sociological Association Presidential address: For public sociology*
TL;DR: Comparing disciplines points to the umbilical chord that connects sociology to the world of publics, underlining sociology's particular investment in the defense of civil society, itself beleaguered by the encroachment of markets and states.