Historical institutionalists highlight institutions' path-dependent effect, whereby the contingent choice of one institution over another for example, private over public provision of pensions results in political actors' investment in adaptation to the selected institution and therefore in its durability and in stable divergence of countries' institutional forms.
He found a job at a company (soon to become Unisys) that provided computer software to financial institutions, and his path seemed clear.
We also discussed how such experiments offer scientists and their institutions a direct path to the public as conventional science media shrink (read "The Changing Communication Climate" for more).
Adverse external shocks, therefore, pose a danger to political institutions and, via path dependence, these events may have far-reaching consequences for economic policies.
Bridgepoint Health, and other healthcare institutions taking this path, should consider launching pilot projects to assess the practical impact of pharmacogenetics to optimize treatment for chronic continuous care.
While 13 institutions provided a path to a degree at or below the target tuition, many noted that there were prohibitive hoops to jump through, and that the offerings didn't apply to many majors or many kinds of students, and that they never extended to flagship universities.
PDPs within larger institutions such as PATH are also able to leverage competencies in multiple offices.
Rather than force everyone to be trained for the same (academic) career path, institutions should provide opportunities for trainees to acquire skills that are useful in multiple career paths, and PIs should be required to allow trainees access to these training opportunities.
As the factors that determine the accountability and responsiveness of multilateral donor agencies depend on their originating coalitional politics, we suggest an approach that combines the literature addressing the non-institutional political origins of institutions, proto-institutions, and path dependency theory.
"The time has come to set our institution on a path that will enable it to survive and thrive well into the future," the board chairman, Mark Epstein, said in an announcement to students and faculty members in the college's Great Hall.
An "emerald ribbon" of pedestrian walkways and bicycle paths would link parks, preserves and institutions, allowing, for example, a Hofstra student to jog from campus to the Eisenhower Park zoo.
