Institutions, Communication and Values

2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-22379-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, as well as the 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dolfsma, W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables, Figures, Boxes Preface Introduction Economy& Society (How do they relate?) Institutions, Institutional Change and Language Structure, Agency and the Role of Values in Processes of Institutional Change Silent Trade Knowledge Coordination and Development via Market, Hierarchy and Gift Exchange Making Knowledge Work in Organizations Path Dependence in Organization Consumption of Symbolic Goods Law& Economics: bankruptcy law Conclusion References Index

Über Autor(innen)

WILFRED DOLFSMA is Professor of Innovation and Strategy at the University of Groningen School of Economics and Business, the Netherlands, and professorial fellow at Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT). He is both an economist and philosopher and holds a PhD in the former. He was 2005/6 research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) and is corresponding editor for the Review of Social Economy. His research interests are the interrelations between economy, society and technology. He has published on various aspects of media industries, feminist economics as well as on globalisation, and the developments in and effects of IPR. In addition, as an institutional economist, Dolfsma does research in the history and methodology of economics, and consumption. He has co-edited (ed. with Luc Soete, 2006), (ed. with Charlie Dannreuther, 2003), (Routledge, 2008), (ed. with John Davis; Edward Elgar, 2008), and published (2004). The latter monograph won him the Gunnar Myrdal Prize (2006). His articles have featured in, a.o., the , the , the , the , and .