This article interrogates the impact of EU employment policy on UK both during and after Membership. To do so, it adopts insights from historical institutionalism discursive institutionalism. The argument made is that integration in area resulted a process ‘layering’ whereby ultimately tamed some more liberal elements UK’s model. Such layering, however, failed to generate fundamental change wit...

The question studied here is whether political regimes, dichotomized as democracies and autocracies, a¤ect the rate of growth of employment. But broader issues are at stake. The central claim of ”new institutionalism” is that institutions are the primary cause of economic development. The theoretical program has been laid out by North (1997: 224; italics supplied): ”To make sense out of histori...

Contemporary institutional theorizing in the field of organizations dates back thirty-odd years. This particularly describes what are called new or neo-institutionalisms. These terms evoke contrasts with earlier theories of the embeddedness of organizations in social and cultural contexts, now retrospectively called the ‘old institutionalism’ (Hirsch & Lounsbury, 1997; Stinchcombe, 1997). They ...

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We examine the diffusion of one particular kind of firm strategy, diversification, among a population of Chinese listed firms during the period of 1991 to 2002. The results are consistent with the idea that the decision is driven by both efficiency and legitimacy concerns. By linking diversification to social network and institutionalism theory, this study sheds new light on how dissemination a...

Nowadays, planning is no longer considered merely a scientific and technical career nor agovernment responsibity. It rather functions as a bridge connecting the planners to institutional changes. In otherwords, the planning theory does not develop in a social, economic and political vacuum, but is formulated byindividuals in social situations with the aim of clarifying the enviroment recommendi...