Over the years layering has gained increasing attention in studies of institutional change.
Notably, the concept has been subject to the exact mechanism it tries to explain: incremental …

Since the early 2000s, theorizing on incremental institutional change has made inroads in
comparative historical analysis. In particular, the ideas, concepts, and theory introduced by …

Although new institutionalism has long been criticised for presenting overly static accounts
of social reality, that critique is becoming increasingly unwarranted. In recent years …

Kathleen Thelen is one of the leading scholars studying incremental institutional change. In
her early works from the 1990s, she introduced the conceptualization of different modes of …

The concept of institutional stability has been explored from multiple disciplinary lenses and
is associated with a variety of theories and frameworks, masking important variation in the …

The paper analyzes the prerequisites for a regulatory-driven transition toward radically lower
air and water pollution in industry. This is achieved in the empirical context of the Swedish …

Theories of institutional change help us to understand policy transformation, and provide us
with a framework for presenting transformation narratives retrospectively. By telling the …

This paper deals with the role of intangible services regarding the risk of technological lock-
in. It is based on the case of advisory services for farmers. Collective learning procedures …

Over 40years of research in the IMP tradition has resulted in a variety of different kinds of
published outputs; data, information, knowledge, concepts, stories, models, case studies …

The COVID-19 pandemic brought a major shift in governmental operations, including
decision-making processes. In the midst of an unprecedented crisis, public managers had to …