Twenty-one papers explore the accomplishments, limitations, and unmet needs of the field of new institutional economics. Papers discuss the theories of the firm; contracts--from bilateral sets of incentives to the multilevel governance of relations; institutions and the institutional...

The resolution of a concrete problem lies at the heart of action research approaches. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the practical difficulties implied by the adoption of a participative approach where the problem to be solved is constructed collaboratively with organizational...

When public research laboratories and industry meet to produce and exchange knowledge and technologies, they face decisions about how to frame these collaborations to make the best use of each partner’s resources, ensure a productive and fair outcome, and defuse any tensions and conflicts. In...

This article intends to understand the mechanisms underlying the receiver reactions towards a taboo advertising stimulus. For this purpose, a qualitative study was conducted in two different cultural contexts. This study reveals the importance of the normative social influence and the ambivalent...

This paper aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...

Guilt is a common emotion used by charities in their fundraising mailings. But is it effective to trigger guilt at the receiver in order to support a cause? This communication aims to identify what are the emotionnal, cognitive and behavioral responses of the receivers of guilt messages. To this...