How institutions matter!, Part B

This double volume presents a collection of 23 papers on how institutions matter to socio-economic life. The effort was seeded by the 2015 Alberta Institutions Conference, which brought together 108 participants from 14 countries and 51 different institutions. The resulting papers delve deeply into...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gehman, Joel (Editor), Lounsbury, Michael (Editor), Greenwood, Royston (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: Bingley Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016
Series:Research in the sociology of organizations
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Preserving a settlement despite ongoing challenges: the case of native Indian gaming
  • Understanding "failed" markets: conflicting logics and dissonance in attempts to price the priceless child
  • Institutional hybridity in public sector reform: replacement, blending, or layering of administrative paradigms
  • Institutional maintenance through business collective action: the alcohol industrys engagement with the issue of alcohol-related harm
  • Achieving minimal consensus for new industries: bringing isomorphism back in
  • State mediation in market emergence: socially responsible investing in China
  • Intra-professional status, maintenance failure, and the reformation of the Scottish civil justice system
  • The performative puzzle: how institutions matter in marginalizing and reconstituting identities
  • Institutional constraints on the pursuit of racial justice
  • "Walk the line": how institutional influences constrain elites
  • Organization theory and the dilemmas of a post-corporate economy
  • About the authors
  • Includes bibliographical references