This contribution is about the 'progressive research program', as Imre Lakatos would have
called it, initiated by New Institutional Economics. After a short reminder of the 'golden …

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 …

Organisations and Institutions is a critical introduction to organisational economics. It
examines the threat to sociology from the imperialist expansion of economics and the …

The science of organization that is herein described has progressively evolved through four
successive stages. The first stage is associated with Ronald Coase and entails" informal" …

Institutions are the" rules of the game" of economic behavior. They include the laws of states,
the policies of organizations, and even the normative prescriptions of cultures. In this …

The focus on institutions as a foundational concept in the social sciences has given rise to a
variety of new institutionalist approaches. Not since the behavioral revolution of the 1950s …

Exchanges are governed by a set of formal institutions (contracts, incentives, authority) and
informal institutions (norms, routines, political processes) that we argue are deeply …

Markets and formal organizations, the twin pillars on which much ofcontemporary social
science rests, are typically presented as alternative mechanisms for the allocation and …

This is Volume 3 of the Handbook of Industrial Organization series (HIO). Volumes 1 & 2
published simultaneously in 1989 and many of the chapters were widely cited and appeared …

I In recent years, there has been a considerable amount of research on organizational
practices and arrangements that are network-like in form. This diverse literature shares a …