This double volume presents a collection of 23 papers on how institutions matter to socio-economic life. The effort was seeded by the 2015 Alberta Institutions Conference, which brought together 108 participants from 14 countries and 51 different institutions. The resulting papers delve deeply into the practical impact an institutional approach enables, as well as how such research has the potential to influence policies relevant to critical institutional changes unfolding in the world today. In Volume 48A, the focus is on the micro foundations of institutional impacts. In Volume 48B, the focus is on the macro consequences of institutional arrangements. Looking across the two volumes, there are multiple theoretical, conceptual, methodological and practical points of convergence and divergence. Overall, the volumes highlight the many ways in which institutional processes and institutional researchers can contribute to our understanding of the micro foundations and macro consequences of institutions and their impacts on a wide variety of globally pressing issues, while also identifying a variety of fruitful directions for knowledge accumulation and development.

About the Author
Joel Gehman, University of Alberta, Canada Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta, Canada Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta, Canada

Reviews
Editors Gehman, Lounsbury, and Greenwood present readers with a collection of essays and articles focused on contemporary and emerging trends in the sociology of organizations and other related subjects. The eleven selections that make up the main body of the text are devoted to preserving a settlement despite ongoing challenges, understanding failed markets, institutional hybridity in public sector reform, state mediation in market emergence, institutional constraints on the pursuit of racial justice, and many other related subjects. Joel Gehman, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood are faculty members of the University of Alberta, Canada. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) *



Book Information
ISBN 9781786354327
Author Joel Gehman
Format Hardback
Page Count 344
Imprint Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm