Governance mechanisms, societal institutions, and State bureaucracy: concerns over societal institutions and governmental porosity

Corporate Culture, Societal Culture, and Institutions

While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two and itself sustains formal institutions. Cultural changes are rarer and slower than changes in legal institutions, which makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture. Cultural changes and their effects are easier to identify in simpler, more controlled, environments,...

Nurturing Software: How Societal Institutions Shape the Development of Software

It is widely recognized that software affects fundamental societal concerns, such as privacy. Software does not just appear, but is produced within a variety of societal institutions. This article analyzes how societal institutions shape the development of software and its resulting implications for society. Specifically, we consider how institutional rules are evident in the different structur...

Institutions and Corporate Governance

15 From its inception, the institutional tradition of studying organizations has been informed by themes of control and coordination – themes that fall within the domain of corporate governance, broadly defined as being concerned with the implicit and explicit relationships between the corporation and its constituents, as well as the relationships between these constituent groups 1999). With it...

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Governance Institutions and Economic Activity

Governance Institutions and Economic Activity By AVINASH DIXIT The concept of “governance” has risen from obscurity to buzzword status in just three decades. EconLit shows only 5 mentions of the word governance in the 1970s; by the end of 2008, it was mentioned 33,177 times. The much more specific phrase “economic governance” has appeared 192 times; its more popular cousin, “corporate governanc...