This book focuses on the role of economic and political institutions in economic development. The book offers fresh perspectives on the issues facing less-developed countries and the elements influencing their outcomes. The text includes chapters on democracy, property rights, and economic...

In Lieu of an Introduction: How I Remember Leonid Hurwicz -- Institution Design: Technical Change and the Decentralization Penalty -- Fundamental Theory of Institutions: a Lecture in Honor of Leo Hurwicz -- The Hurwicz Program, Past and Suggestions for the Future -- Social Networks from a...

Chapter One: General Introduction -- Chapter Two: Institutional Antecedents of Entrepreneurship and its Consequences on Economic Growth: A Systematic Literature Analysis -- Chapter Three: Social Progress Orientation and Entrepreneurship -- Chapter Four: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Activity on...

Preface: Materiality, Institutions & Organizing -- Introduction: Institution and Materiality -- Institutionalization as bricolage: A material perspective -- Footsteps in the sand: consequences of conformity in complex institutional environment -- The problem of ontological fluctuations in...

Robert Fritzsch provides an institutional economic analysis of the Great Recession. The author shows that institutions matter as determinants of crisis resilience - however in a different way than predicted by the prominent theories of Olson (1982) and North, Wallis, Weingast (2009), as the...

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Rationale of Central Banks -- 2 Governance Structure of Central Banks.-3 Public Governance of Central Banks -- 4 Governance of Monetary Policy -- 5 Ownership of Prudential Policy -- 6 Role of Central Banks in Financial Crisis Management -- 7 Scope and...

1.Italian Economics and Fascism: an Institutional View -- 2. Economists and the Fascist Regime: A Painful Continuity? -- 3 The Persistence of Tradition: The Economists in the Law Faculties and in the Higher Institutes of Business Studies (1922 – 1943) -- 4.The Faculties of Political Sciences...

Understanding Values Work in Organisations and Leadership -- Values – Reviewing the construct and drawing implications for values work in organisation and leadership -- What is values work? A review of values work in organisations -- Institutional Complexity Challenging Values and Identities...

Institutional Theory and Oil Prices: Ceci est ne pas un Marché -- The Oil Price and Resource-Society Interaction -- Oil, between monopolies and free market -- Is OPEC dead? Oil Exporters, the Paris Agreement and the Transition to a Post-Carbon World -- Petroleum Conspiracies: How Russian...

Goal Cascade of Family Enterprise´s Strategy -- Family Enterprises as Research Objects -- Theoretical Side: Results, Model Building and Discussion -- The Practical Side: Pragmatic-Normative Implications.