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Institutions and Institutional Change
2021This chapter outlines the central issues of institutional change in new institutionalism. It shows the foundations of new institutionalism through rational choice, sociological and historical institutionalism and their respective issues with explaining institutional change—with rational choice institutionalism focusing on optimization problems ...
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Special Care in Dentistry, 1985
Public and professional interest in community‐based care for persons with handicapping conditions seems to have reached equilibrium, and the new problems faced by those who provide institutional dental care should be scrutinized.
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Public and professional interest in community‐based care for persons with handicapping conditions seems to have reached equilibrium, and the new problems faced by those who provide institutional dental care should be scrutinized.
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Economic Institutions and Institutional Change
2021Interest in the institutions that structure economic behavior has a long history in sociology, extending back to the work of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Polanyi. With the rise of new economic sociology in the 1980s, scholars have direct renewed attention toward the informal and formal rules and conventions that structure economic life.
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Institutions of Higher Education and Institutional Economics: Is There Change or No Change?
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010Purpose: This paper investigates the management accounting structure of higher education institutions in Greece and their management’s willingness to adopt cost-effective strategies and proactively encourage structural changes in order to improve its modus operandi and ultimately, provide a higher quality working environment for its staff and students.
Epaminondas Katsikas +2 more
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Endogenizing institutions and institutional changes
Journal of Institutional Economics, 2007Abstract:This paper proposes an analytical-cum-conceptual framework for understanding the nature of institutions as well as their changes. First, it proposes a new definition of institution based on the notion of common knowledge regarding self-sustaining features of social interactions with a hope to integrate various disciplinary approaches to ...
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Institutional Change, Happiness, and Fertility
European Sociological Review, 2015Building on existing theories of fertility dynamics, this article provides a theoretical perspective that connects two recent strands of the literature. The first concerns gender equity and equality where institutions play a critical role. The second is that subjective well-being matters in explaining childbearing behaviour (and vice versa).
AASSVE, ARNSTEIN +2 more
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2021
Abstract This chapter reviews the current state of research on change processes from an institutional perspective. It examines the longitudinal progression of research, illustrating the generative processes that drive change, the patterns of change over time, the mechanisms underpinning change, and its key outcomes.
Evelyn Micelotta +2 more
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Abstract This chapter reviews the current state of research on change processes from an institutional perspective. It examines the longitudinal progression of research, illustrating the generative processes that drive change, the patterns of change over time, the mechanisms underpinning change, and its key outcomes.
Evelyn Micelotta +2 more
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Language
2009By developing Searle’s (1995, 2005) argument that language is the fundamental institution, this chapter contributes to the growing institutionalist literature on the conception of the institution and the understanding of institutional change. Language is ambiguous, however, and so institutional reproduction, mediated by language, is a deeply ...
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2023
This comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical.
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This comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical.
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Institutional Change and Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Political Institutional Change
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016In this paper we use an institutional perspective to investigate the ways in which formal political institutional change over time and controlling for informal personal characteristics of individua...
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