Ron Hira
Biographic Data
| ID | 702254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ron Hira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ron |
| FAMILY NAME | Hira |
| SIGNATURE | HIRA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Outsourcing
For more than two decades, outsourcing – the business practice of transferring jobs, knowledge, and technologies from high‐ to low‐cost countries – has been a leading public policy issue in the U.S. and other economies. Policymakers respond to public concerns over outsourcing in two ways. One, they craft an electoral message to attract voters, and two, they choose policy responses. Two competing ideologies have emerged, one shared by elites and t…
U.S. Policy and the STEM Workforce System
This article describes the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce system and discusses various policy mechanisms that can influence it. Discussion of STEM workforce policy too often focuses on controlling single variables, such as degree production, without taking into account how it influences, and is influenced by, other variables in the system. As a result, policy outcomes frequently fall short of goals. The policy …
The New Institutionalism
This article suggests that the new institutionalism contains ambiguous and contradictory notions of change. By setting up a model that explains institutional constraints on decision makers, the new institutionalism correctly points out the limits of a rational choice framework of economic decision making. However, by failing to explain the sources and avenues of modifications of those constraints, the new institutionalism is unable to provide a s…
The New Institutionalism
This article suggests that the new institutionalism contains ambiguous and contradictory notions of change. By setting up a model that explains institutional constraints on decision makers, the new institutionalism correctly points out the limits of a rational choice framework of economic decision making. However, by failing to explain the sources and avenues of modifications of those constraints, the new institutionalism is unable to provide a s…
U.S. Policy and the STEM Workforce System
This article describes the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce system and discusses various policy mechanisms that can influence it. Discussion of STEM workforce policy too often focuses on controlling single variables, such as degree production, without taking into account how it influences, and is influenced by, other variables in the system. As a result, policy outcomes frequently fall short of goals. The policy …
The New Institutionalism
This article suggests that the new institutionalism contains ambiguous and contradictory notions of change. By setting up a model that explains institutional constraints on decision makers, the new institutionalism correctly points out the limits of a rational choice framework of economic decision making. However, by failing to explain the sources and avenues of modifications of those constraints, the new institutionalism is unable to provide a s…
U.S. Policy and the STEM Workforce System
This article describes the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce system and discusses various policy mechanisms that can influence it. Discussion of STEM workforce policy too often focuses on controlling single variables, such as degree production, without taking into account how it influences, and is influenced by, other variables in the system. As a result, policy outcomes frequently fall short of goals. The policy …
Outsourcing
For more than two decades, outsourcing – the business practice of transferring jobs, knowledge, and technologies from high‐ to low‐cost countries – has been a leading public policy issue in the U.S. and other economies. Policymakers respond to public concerns over outsourcing in two ways. One, they craft an electoral message to attract voters, and two, they choose policy responses. Two competing ideologies have emerged, one shared by elites and t…
Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adaptation (eye) (1 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 works)