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Stakeholder Theory: Toward a Classical Institutional Economics Perspective
Stakeholder theorists have traditionally objected to the neoclassical conception of the firm as a vehicle for maximizing profit or shareholder...
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How Do Institutional Prescriptions (Fail to) Address Governance Challenges Under Institutional Hybridity? The Case of Governance Code Creation for Cooperative Enterprises
Codes of governance have mushroomed in contexts operating under a single, dominant institutional logic, such as publicly listed corporations. These...
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Shifting Stakeholders Logics: Foreign Institutional Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility
This study examines the role of foreign institutional ownership in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect...
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Institutional design and moral conflict in health care priority-setting
Priority-setting policy-makers often face moral and political pressure to balance the conflicting motivations of efficiency and rescue/non-abandonment ...
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Institutional Integrity: Its Meaning and Value
People can have or lack ‘integrity’. But can public institutions?
It is common to speak of the ‘integrity’ of such institutions: in popular discourse,...
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Rewriting History: Backwards Causation and Conflicting Declarations Among Institutional Facts
Kenneth Silver has recently argued that backwards causation is common in the context of social institutions. I consider this claim in detail and...
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Clarifying Social Institutions in Institutional Individualism
This paper aims at clarifying social institutions in institutional individualism. I shall first examine Popper’s criticism of psychologism. Then I...
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Geographic Concentration of Institutional Blockholders and Workplace Safety Violations
This study uses insights from the political perspective on corporate governance to investigate the influence of geographic concentration of...
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Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises
Institutional resilience refers to the capacity of institutions to deal with adversity. Crises are a major source of adversity. However, we poorly...
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Institutional Logics in the UK Construction Industry’s Response to Modern Slavery Risk: Complementarity and Conflict
There is a growing understanding that modern slavery is a phenomenon ‘hidden in plain sight’ in the home countries of multinational firms. Yet,...
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How institutional solutions meant to increase diversity in science fail
Philosophers of science have in recent years presented arguments in favour of increasing cognitive diversity, diversity of social locations, and...
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Foreign Institutional Investors, Legal Origin, and Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure
The disclosure of corporate environmental performance is an increasingly important element of a firm’s ethical behavior. We analyze how the legal...
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Deliberation and Voting: An Institutional Account of the Legitimacy of Democratic Decision-Making Procedures
In this essay I defend an institutional approach to democratic legitimacy against proceduralist approaches that are commonly endorsed by deliberative...
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How Political Ties and Green Innovation Co-evolve in China: Alignment with Institutional Development and Environmental Pollution
Building on the co-evolutionary perspective, this study investigates the reciprocal and co-evolving relationship between political ties and green...
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To what extent can institutional control explain the dominance of analytic philosophy?
Katzav and Vaesen have argued that control by analytic philosophers of key journals, philosophy departments and at least one funding body plays a...
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John Finnis and the New Natural Law Theory
The so-called “New Natural Law Theory”, whose most important representatives are Germain Grisez, John Finnis, and Robert P. George, is part of a...
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Social Position and Social Status: An Institutional and Relational Sociological Conception
In this article, I discuss the concepts of social position and social status, the types of social position, as well as the determinedness of social...
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Methodological Individualism and Institutional Individualism: A Discussion with Joseph Agassi
This chapter takes the form of a discussion between the editors of this volume and Joseph Agassi, regarding the relationship between methodological...
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Understanding Value Change in the Energy Transition: Exploring the Perspective of Original Institutional Economics
In this paper, we take inspiration from original institutional economics (OIE) as an approach to study value change within the highly complex...
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Rorty and Literary Theory
This chapter aims to provide an overview of Rorty’s complex relation to literary theory. In particular, it aims to clarify why Rorty is often...