The literature on early industrializing Japan characterizes the business-government relationship in antithetical terms of “cooperation” or “independence.” The first position advances that interaction between these actors is largely covert and mutually beneficial and the second...

A socio-cognitive foundation for human agency requires much deeper exploration to adequately understand the origins of our interests, preferences, and choices as they shape both the emergence of institutions, as well as the process of institutional change. In the collegial spirit of...

Purpose Given managerial choices and the sociocultural context in which they are made are at the heart of management history, then an understanding of both is critical. This paper argues that the “late” North (2005) provides such an understanding. Design/methodology/approach This study is a...