The new institutionalism in sociology and organizational research is best represented as an
extended family of scholars that share a broadly defined theoretical orientation. The multiple …

Heralded most vigorously by Douglass North," the new institutionalism" focuses on the role
of property rights (Barzel, Libecap), the bureaucracy (Miller, 1990, 1992), contracts (Stiglitz) …

Like all new research fields, the “new economic sociology” was produced by the
redeployment of relatively diverse researchers under a single academic label. Academic …

Institutions frame behaviors and exchanges in markets, business networks, communities,
and organizations throughout the world. Thanks to the pioneering work of Ronald Coase …

Institutional approaches have seen a remarkable revival in social science research within
the last decades. In particular New Institutional Economics (NIE) has progressed rapidly …

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This article explicitly deals with and scrutinises what can be perceived to be the core
analytical issues and methodological concepts of new institutional economics. New …

Institutional economics is now a major subdiscipline, with important applications to studies of
business, developing economies, transitional economies, property rights and much else …

The term 'institutional theory'covers a broad body of literature that has grown in prominence
and popularity over the past two decades. But, consistency in defining the bounds of this …

Some of the most fruitful insights generated by social science in recent decades flow from
explorations of how institutions, understood as sets of regularized practices with a rule-like …