Information exchange in policy networks is usually attributed to preference similarity, influence reputation, social trust and institutional actor roles. We suggest that political opportunity structures and transaction costs play another crucial role and estimate a rich statistical network model...

Die vorliegende Studie enthält eine vergleichende empirische Analyse des institutionellen Wandels in der Telekommunikation in vier westeuropäischen Ländern: Großbritannien, Frank.reich, Italien und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In allen diesen Ländern gerieten die institutionellen...

Different sub-disciplines of the social sciences analyse the evolution and diffusion of technical innovations from an institutional perspective. Important contributions are provided by socio-economic studies of national systems of innovation, by politico-economic research on the varieties of...

Modern societies regard knowledge as a production factor in its own right. The market is the prevailing governance mode of their economies, and it is supposed to be the most appropriate mode of trading and allocating knowledge assets, too. But socio-economic research has revealed that knowledge...