Institutions, Communication and Values

W. Dolfsma

• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año: 2009
• ISBN:
  9780230250666
• Categoría: Économie
• Categoría: Politique économique

Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, as well asthe changes they may undergo, is fundamentally imbued in language and communication. In analysing the role of socio-cultural values, this book argues that communication and language is inseparable from both the economy and a meaningful understanding of insitutions.

Índice

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Market and Society: How Do They Relate, and How Do They Contribute to Welfare?
• 3 Institutions, Institutional Change and Language
• 4 Structure, Agency and the Role of Values in Processes of Institutional Change
• 5 ‘Silent Trade’ and the Supposed Continuum between OIE and NIE
• 6 Knowledge Coordination and Development via Market, Hierarchy and Gift Exchange
• 7 Making Knowledge Work: Intra-firm Networks, Gifts and Innovation
• 8 Path Dependence, Initial Conditions and Routines in Organizations: the Toyota Production System Re-examined
• 9 Paradoxes of Modernist Consumption: Reading Fashions
• 10 Institutionalist Law and Economics and Values: the Case of Personal Bankruptcy Law
• 11 Conclusions
• Notes
• References
• Index