Haut PDF An innovation platform for institutional change in Ghana's cocoa sector
An innovation platform for institutional change in Ghana's cocoa sector
... / innovation / acteurs 1 Introduction This paper addresses the contribution of an innovation platform (IP) to bringing about significant institutional change in Ghana’s ...
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External influences on agro-enterprise innovation platforms in Benin, Ghana and Mali – Options for effective responses
... & Innovation (KTI), WUR, Wageningen, The Netherlands Abstract – This paper discusses external influencesoninnovationplatforms(IPs)andtheoptionsforeffective ...examined in this paper were conceived as ...
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Innovation platforms and institutional change: the case of small-scale palm oil processing in Ghana
... how an IP modified the institutional regime so as to enable smallholder ...the institutional contexts experienced by smallholders in sub- Saharan Africa is a major impediment to them becoming ...
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“An iron hand in a velvet glove’’: the embodiment of the platform logic in the emergency sector
... of institutional logics exist (Friedland and Alford 1991; Thornton and Ocasio 1999), all are underpinned by the principle that individual and organizational behavior is located in a social and ...
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An innovative collaborative high-performance platform for simulation
... designed for habits of very different communities (geophysics, fluid dynamics, structure, biochemical, drug ...technologies for the service access (low bandwidth internet access, standard hardware ...
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OSA: an Integration Platform for Component-Based Simulation
... APPLICATION In the context of the SPREADS project (Safe P2P Reli- able E Architecture for Data Storage) we study issues re- lated to storage and data backup in peer-to-peer environ- ...storage) ...
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An autonomous forklift research platform for warehouse operations
... built in PID velocity controller and accepts target wheel angle ...responsible for being aware of, and planning for, steering slew times and ...lock in one direction to the other (a 180 degree ...
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Creating an Institutional Repository: LEADIRS Workbook
... Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL, ...building in the past several years for libraries to consider building ...establish institutional repositories on which ...
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Threshold Policy Effects and Directed Technical Change in Energy Innovation
... on Innovation The idea that appropriate policy choice is contingent on the stage of technological devel- opment of a country is certainly not new in the literature on economic ...institutions, for ...
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Technical change in a neoclassical two-sector model of optimal growth
... regimes. In the perspective given in the paper, one can speculate that China has grown so fastly for several decades because productivity growth was faster in the investment industry than ...
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An Institutional View of Organizational Capabilities
... capability change may not payoff (Winter, ...potential for opportunist behavior among individuals in a social system is minimized (Floyd and Lane, ...invest in developing an equivalent ...
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Toward an interoperable software platform for sustainable energy
... CAPE-OPEN defines rules and interfaces that allow CAPE applications or components to interoperate. This interoperation is achieved by combining the different so-called Process Modelling Components (PMC) in ...
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Democratizing innovation in the Department of Defense : a model for improving innovation in an era of fiscal tightening
... ideal opportunity to access a too often ignored source of development within the Department of Defense, while strengthening both user activities and the acquisitions organizati[r] ...
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Institutional entrepreneurs as translators : a comparative study in an emerging activity
... as an institutional ...funds in France grew from 7 to more than 80 in ...provider in 2001. Beyond the support of investors, ARESE also benefited from an indirect support of big ...
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Competing institutional trajectories in organization. An ethnographic study of controlizing
... through an ethnographic case ...immersed in daily routines and concrete work situations is a necessity (Dent, 1990; Covaleski and Dirsmith, ...why an ethnographic approach was adopted (Van Maanen, ...
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Societal cleavages and institutional change in Canada : retention, reform and removal of nominee councils
... examine institutional change in terms of constraints and in terms of what factors may lead to ...hypothesis for this dissertation is that societal cleavages directly impact on ...
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Center pivot irrigation in Nebraska : an institutional analysis case study
... Actual Institutional Perception of and Response to Center-Pivot Irrigation Responses Perceived Attributes Management Water Issues Production Boom Labor Saving Land Use Energy [r] ...
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Center pivot irrigation in Nebraska : an institutional analysis case study
... Actual Institutional Perception of and Response to Center-Pivot Irrigation Responses Perceived Attributes Management Water Issues Production Boom Labor Saving Land Use Energy [r] ...
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Aesthetic experience & innovation culture : the aesthetic experience in an R&D department through design and for innovation culture
... or an experience?” He receives a new cup, a Bodum coffee cup that looks like any other coffee ...coffee in this new recipient profoundly surprised him. From an unwanted gift, this product reveals to ...
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Institutional Changes: Alternative Theories and Consequences for Institutional Design
... Expectations In contrast to the theory just described, the second branch of thought defines an institution as the endogenously derived “play of the game” or strategies created when agents repeatedly ...
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