1st Edition
Institutional Change Theory and Empirical Findings
This book brings together some 15 papers drawn from the 330 papers presented at the Third Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1991. Part 1 outlines a basic theory of institutional change; Parts 2 and 3 examine case studies in international experience with institutional change. The authors of the original papers include Douglas North, Amitai Etzioni, Oliver Williamson, as well as eminent scholars from Eastern and Western Europe, representing views and analyses from ten different countries.
Biography
Sven-Erik Sjastrand (b. 1945) received his Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden) in 1973. He has been Professor of Management and Organization Theory at this school since 1978 and Chairman of its Department for Management and Business Administration since 1989. He is a member of several boards, both in research associations and in large Swedish multinationals. Furthermore, he is the national representative and a board member of both the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) and the European Association for Evolutionary and Political Economics (EAEPE). His internationally best-known writings include A Taxonomic Approach to Some Problems of Company Organization (1975), Organizational Myths (1978), The Role Process: Towards an Integrating Device in Organization Theory (1986), The Dual Functions of Organizations (1987), Institutional Economics-An Overview (1989), and The Rationale Behind Irrational Institutions (1992).