In the field of adaptation governance research, current discussion on the barriers to
adaptation shows that theoretical explanations for why institutions emerge and how they …

There is a broad consensus that state capacity is central to economic and institutional
development. But while the concept originated as a tool for macro-historical and …

Macro and micro institutions have received considerable attention from institutional theory in
the analysis of organizational performance. The role played by meso-institutions has hardly …

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 …

There is continuing interest in how rules created at the “institutional environment” level
influence the performance of food safety policies. The influence of institutional rules on the …

The objective of this paper is to build an integrative framework that aims to explain the
specific functions of systemic intermediaries in connecting actors/network of actors to …

These reflections are prompted by the papers by Ménard (2014) and Ménard and Shirley
(2014). Their essays centre on the path-breaking contributions to the 'new institutional …

This contribution aims to understand an overshadowed fact: regulation theory—far from
being restricted to macroeconomics—is relevant for grasping the dynamics of meso …

This article builds on new institutional economics to characterize the functions played by
meso‐institutions in bridging the gap between the macro‐institutional layer at which general …

New institutional economics (NIE) is a powerful tool for understanding real world
phenomena. This Advanced Introduction explores NIE's answers to fundamental questions …