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2 CHANGE AGENTS, NETWORKS, AND INSTITUTIONS: A CONTINGENCY THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Abstract We develop a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as the extent to which an actor’s network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and

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Governance and Complexity—Emerging Issues for …

CAS consists of agents (e.g., cells, species, social actors, firms, and nations) assumed to follow certain behavioral schemata. Second, as no central control directs the behavior of agents, self-organization occurs when agents are acting on locally available information about the behavior of other

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The Nature of Policy Change and Implementation: A Review ...

The topic of policy change is a widely researched area in public policy and political science. In fields such as education policy, however, there is often an untheoretical approach on ‘what works’.

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Principles of awareness-raising for information literacy ...

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Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the ...

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A decision guide for rural advisory methods

1 A decision guide for rural advisory methods Introduction In today’s fast-changing world, agricultural producers need support to innovate1 as well as reliable sources of information, knowledge, skills and technologies along the entire value chain