Economic systems are undergoing a generalized effort to improve corporate governance structures and processes.Waves of scandals and increasing public scrutiny push institutional regulators and corporate boards of directors to establish and adopt new practices.Codes of good governance have...

Contents: 1. New themes in institutional analysis : topics and issues from European research / Georg Krücken, Renate E. Meyer and Peter Walgenbach -- 2. The value of institutional logics / Roger Friedland -- 3. What are institutional logics and where is the perspective taking us? / Christina...

This text briefly depicts the history of an encounter between anthropology and organization theory in the Anglo-Saxon literature in the period 1990-2010 as seen by an organization scholar. In focus are some stable characteristics and some changes in this relationship, against the background of...