This study aims to trace the conceptual evolutionary path of theories on corporate social
responsibility (CSR) and to reflect on the implications of the development. The retrospection …

This essay reviews the concept of “institutions” as used in the recent economic literatures on
firms and national development and notes its limitations. An alternative framework is …

This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare
and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool …

A quest to explain institutional change that gave rise to a new economic order is complex
and challenging. This book reports the results of a six-year (2005–2011) study that aims to …

Markets have sometimes been described as vastly different from and even opposite to
formal organizations. But markets and organizations share a similarity as well. Both are …

Many of today's books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide
descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project …

The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent
texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the …

This article discusses the idea of city as a platform. The analysis focuses on the forms and
implications of citizen involvement in publicly-supported participatory innovation platforms …

This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social
institutions. We operationalize culture with data on cultural dimensions for some 50 nations …

Alena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore society's open secrets,
unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as 'ways of getting things done' …