functional equivalents of institutions in the absence of well-developed, mature formal institutions. …

This paper attempts to explain how institutions in the reform era of China have evolved by looking into the FDI … institutions may evolve in the future and what we should concern more about institutional changes in transitional economies. …

credible and therefore more effective in countries with high-quality institutions; iii) is more credible and therefore more …

draw from John Davis’ (2003) analysis of the individual in posing the questions: what differentiates institutions, and how … can changing institutions be identified through time and space? Our analysis develops Searle’s (2005) argument that … of language. Moreover, language and understanding, surely when related to most institutions in real life, delineate and …

or institutions (Hodgson 1999, 2004). In this article we argue, however, that these recent contributions, from the fields …. We provide a theoretical account of the conditions under which institutions change, and the likely direction of such … institutional settings and practices (Dolfsma 2004). As institutions should be conceptualized to have both structural as well as …

our own and others, both local and foreign – influence who we and others are as individuals and as organizations. …

, firms need to develop political relations with governments and institutions in home countries and abroad. The aim of this …