Abstract The Australian government has transformed the national biosecurity framework by shifting from a quarantine to shared responsibility approach. This reflects move centralised network‐based governance. While network governance enables development of private and public networks needed enact approach, it can sit in tension with this which requires sharing risk legitimacy across an array non...

Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater resources. This paper aims to understand the key factors that foster or hinder the complex process of tra...

This paper develops a theoretical framework that situates institutional entrepreneurship by drawing from Gramsci’s concept of hegemony to understand the contingent stabilization of organizational fields, and by employing his discussion of the Modern Prince as the collective agent who organizes and strategizes counter-hegemonic challenges. Our framework makes three contributions. First, we chara...

The current paper presents a theoretical framework on the assimilation of Green IS in organizations. The assimilation of Green IS comprises three stages, namely, Green IS initiation, adoption, and routinization. The different stages of assimilation are proposed to be affected by different groups of factors. Based on institutional theory, organizational information processing theory and organiza...

Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater resources. This paper aims to understand the key factors that foster or hinder the complex process of tra...

The reform of the centralized Jamaican regulatory landscape in the 1990s was promoted via the adoption of the independent regulatory model. The key driving force behind this model is that its decentralist configuration will negate undue political interference in regulatory affairs. So, the devolution of authority framework was encouraged as one of the institutional designs to facilitate separat...

Global sea-levels are rising due to global warming. Major impacts on the world’s coasts are sand beach erosion, salination of ground water, and inundation. Adaptation is the only option to address these future threats as the mitigation of CO2 emissions is not capable of preventing sea-level rise. There are several organisational frameworks existing that can incorporate adaptation measures. Inte...

Innovation is increasingly viewed as a key determinant of economic growth. Recent literature indicates innovation occurs at the local, regional, national and global levels. One such perspective suggests economic growth depends on developing an institutional framework that links local non-codified knowledge with global flows of codified knowledge. This article uses social network analysis, case ...

In this paper we present six scenarios about the possible evolution of the water supply and sanitation sector in Europe, considering both liberalised and non-liberalised environments. The scenarios were developed around three macro-storylines, namely (1) pressure for more competition and private sector participation; (2) opposition to liberalisation and pressure to return to direct public or co...

______________________________________________________________ Based on an in-depth study of the northern Spanish economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this paper argues that commercial expansion was a major source of the diverging performance of European regions. It develops an approach that integrates insights from more recent trade theory with those from new institutional econo...