Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, as well as the changes they may undergo, is fundamentally imbued in language and communication. In analyzing 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.
Author(s): Wilfred Dolfsma
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 184
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 11
2 Market and Society: How Do They Relate, and How Do They Contribute to Welfare?......Page 16
3 Institutions, Institutional Change and Language......Page 24
4 Structure, Agency and the Role of Values in Processes of Institutional Change......Page 40
5 ‘Silent Trade’ and the Supposed Continuum between OIE and NIE......Page 62
6 Knowledge Coordination and Development via Market, Hierarchy and Gift Exchange......Page 72
7 Making Knowledge Work: Intra-firm Networks, Gifts and Innovation......Page 89
8 Path Dependence, Initial Conditions and Routines in Organizations: the Toyota Production System Re-examined......Page 98
9 Paradoxes of Modernist Consumption: Reading Fashions......Page 123
10 Institutionalist Law and Economics and Values: the Case of Personal Bankruptcy Law......Page 133
11 Conclusions......Page 141
Notes......Page 143
References......Page 150
F......Page 175
K......Page 176
R......Page 177
Z......Page 178
