Institutional Theory
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When people have contacts with the police, the fairness with which police are perceived to act affects citizens’ trust and confidence in the police and their sense that the police deserve to be obeyed – that is, the procedural justice... more
Abstract: In this paper, we outline a number of features of an interdisciplinary and pluralistic approach to economics. As a suitable example of how an interdisciplinary cooperation can unfold, we focus attention on the relations between... more
Se analiza la capacidad institucional del Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara, México, respecto a la implementación de la política de vivienda a través de su Instituto Municipal de la Vivienda (IMUVIG). En primer lugar, para poder definir las... more
Current explanations for franchising assume that managers only pay attention to firm-specific economic factors. In contrast, the authors submit that social factors described by institutional theory will enhance understanding. Using a... more
Canadian University Institutional Review Boards (IRB) assess action research proposals based on the ethical protection of participants, the methodology, and any potential implications for human participants involved in the qualitative... more
In this study of the last three UEFA European Football Championship (2000, 2004, 2008), we identify institutional entrepreneurs and examine the strategies they use to influence the institution they are part of (UEFA) through the... more
Growing intensity of university—industry ties has generated an intense debate about the changing norms and practices of academic scientific work. This study challenges the protagonists’ views on the emergence of a dominant market ethos in... more
The low-carbon energy transition is a form of socio-technical transition and, as such, it involves profound changes in the institutions that govern society. Despite the acknowledged importance of institutions in shaping the pace and... more
This article reviews new literature on the development of China's private sector. Since this sector's development is embedded in and characterised by a wider institutional environment, several general characteristics of China's capitalist... more
Using the Institutional approach from North as a reference, we describe and explain the formal and informal institutional factors that operate in the context of the family business, influencing its behavior, especially in the context of... more
Drawing on Baumol’s concepts of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship and relevant amendments, this book develops a conceptual framework which allows operationalising the concepts for empirical assessment. Using data... more
Special Issue of Journal of Retailing in Honor of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009 to Oliver E. Williamson (Edited by Professor Arne Nygaard, Professor Robert Dahlstrom)
Como parte de mi actividad como profesor e investigador, en los últimos años he estado trabajando un proyecto sobre las instituciones de la modernidad. En este, he considerado hasta ahora la familia (Romo, 2016) y la empresa (Romo, 2018)... more
Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico Oxford University Press (January 2017) How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and... more
Relire Humboldt : quelles valeurs pour fonder une université ? in Les valeurs en éducation. Transmission, conservation, novation. (dir.) Jean-Michel Barreau, Xavier Riondet, PUN-Editions universitaires de Lorraine, 2019.
L’Europe est marquée, depuis une vingtaine d’années, par d’importantes mutations institutionnelles (décentralisation, construction européenne, ouverture internationale, essor de la coopération inter-gouvernementale, tournant néo-libéral)... more
In the context of private ordering—where rule sets are relatively fluid, centrally controlled, and exist in the shadow of law and regulation—developing generalizable insights about comparatively superior governance mechanisms is... more
Français Le refus des élections politiques est devenu avec le temps un principe fondamental du mouvement anarchiste, au point de constituer aujourd’hui un élément important de son identité. C’est le cas à la Fédération anarchiste, où... more
This chapter discusses research on the policies, laws, and subsidies that create and shape the organizational structures and practices that form the basis of the news media. The research reviewed treats news media institutions as... more
What happens to informal institutions and practices when political actors decide to implement democratic institutional reforms aimed at relieving formal institutions of informal constraints? Does informality disappear, or do the elites... more
How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice? Why do some countries perform much better than others on this front? Democracy in the Woods addresses these question by examining... more
There is an ideological civil war taking place in the United States, and in western civilization overall. This is a battle that displays itself along political lines, social lines, academic lines, and along religious lines. This... more
The book focuses on the question of how national bilateral diplomacy is influenced and transformed by EU membership. It provides profound empirical evidence on the nature of this influence and the effect of this process. Its focus lies on... more
... Fostered a belief that the internet could be used as a commercial link between individuals in the diaspora and their home countries. Digital photograph provides basis for trust and accountability for new e-commerce practices. ...