| Giovanni Arrighi - 1994 - 420 pages
...thrust in the opposite direction. As Larissa Lomnitz has argued with reference to national economies, "[t]he more a social system is bureaucratically formalized,...requirements, the more it tends to create informal mechanisms that escape the control of the system." These informal mechanisms "grow in the interstices of the formal... | |
| Willie Thompson - 1997 - 274 pages
...worsening alcoholism and absenteeism: for, 'The more a social system is bureaucratically formalised, regulated, planned, and yet unable to fully satisfy...requirements, the more it tends to create informal mechanisms that escape the control of the system.' 27 The sense of a new start was deliberately cultivated, and... | |
| Shantayanan Devarajan, F. Halsey Rogers - 2002 - 260 pages
...Such individuals were typically close to sources of political, social, and economic power and were capable of pulling the levers of power within an institution...the Kyrgyz Republic represent one such mechanism. Such informal networks were not only a response to the inadequacies of formal institutions in the FSU.... | |
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