Publications

Educators

1 Jul 2006
Conference Presentation

The Role of Individuals in Institutional Change: When Individuals Act as Institutional Entrepreneurs

By: Julie Battilana

Keywords: Change; Entrepreneurship; Identity

Working Paper

Institutional Access and Failure: Colonial Legal Systems and Persistent Institutional Inadequacy in Tropical Africa

By: Catherine S. M. Duggan

Article

How Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship

By: Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca and Eva Boxenbaum

As well as review the literature on the notion of institutional entrepreneurship introduced by Paul DiMaggio in 1988, we propose a model of the process of institutional entrepreneurship. We first present theoretical and definitional issues associated with the concept... View Details

Keywords: Change; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Framework; Research; Theory; Organizations; Management Practices and Processes

Research Summary

Political Institutions and Managerial Practices in India and China

This project with Yasheng Huang of MIT investigates the links between political institutions and managerial practices in India and China.

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summer 1978
Article

Institutional Dimensions of the Malnutrition Problem

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Nutrition; Food; Problems and Challenges

November 1985
Case

Genetics Institute Enters the Seed Business

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Michael Joseph Kennedy

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Biotechnology Industry

1977
Book

NOW Accounts: Strategies for Financial Institutions

By: D. B. Crane and Michael J. Riley

Keywords: Financial Institutions; Strategy

November 2005 (Revised January 2006)
Case

Commercialization at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (A)

A large and successful not-for-profit medical research institute must decide strategy to commercialize its discoveries. In the process, it must balance multiple conflicting demands from its stakeholders. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Public Sector; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Health Industry

Research Summary

The Design of Mechanisms and Institutions

Professor Coughlan's research also investigates the design of public policy and collective choice institutions. His research publications have applied game theory, mechanism design, and laboratory experiments to explore incentives and outcomes under alternative legal,... View Details

August 1996
Background Note

Transformation of Institutional Investment Management, The

By: Jay O. Light

Keywords: Investment; Management

Article

Institutional Portfolio Flows and International Investments

By: K. A. Froot and T. Ramadorai

Keywords: Loss Aversion; International Investment; Portfolio Investment; Asset Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Currency; Investment; Risk Management; Behavioral Finance; Asset Pricing

October 2007 (Revised May 2008)
Case

Transforming Korea Inc: Financial Crisis and Institutional Reform

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim

South Korea, as one of the Asian "tiger" economies, transformed itself into the world's 11th largest economy and major exporter by 1996, emerging from being one of the lowest income countries in the region back in the 1960s. Yet one year later in 1997, Korea was swept... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Financial Crisis; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; South Korea

Educators

1985
Chapter

Institutional Aspects of European Equity Markets

By: Marc L Bertoneche

Keywords: Equity; Financial Markets; Financial Institutions; Organizational Design; Financial Services Industry; Europe

Research Summary

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

May 2012 (Revised July 2012)
Case

Credit Unions: The Future of the Cooperative Financial Institution

By: Robert C. Pozen and Grace Hou

Credit unions are a specialized type of depository institution with a cooperative, non-profit structure and a federal tax exemption. They originated as small, cooperative institutions with an emphasis on uncollateralized consumer lending to the unbanked... View Details

Keywords: Banking; Credit Unions; Banks and Banking

Educators

January 2017
Teaching Note

Orkestra – Basque Institute of Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian Ketels

2004
Chapter

Institutional Pressure and Environmental Management Practices

By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability

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2011
Other Unpublished Work

Height Taken but Worth Unknown: Valuation as an Institutional Process

By: R. Daniel Wadhwani and Mukti Khaire

Drawing on research from organizational studies, sociology, history, and anthropology, we develop a framework for understanding valuation as an institutional process in markets. We posit that three institutional elements—categories, criteria, and standards—are integral... View Details

Keywords: Interactive Communication; Markets; Standards; Situation or Environment; Perception; Valuation

2015
Article

What's so Institutional about Leadership?: Leadership Mechanisms of Value Infusion

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn

Leaders are important social actors in organizations, centrally involved in establishing and maintaining institutional values, a view that was articulated by Philip Selznick (1957) nearly a half-century ago, but often overlooked in institutionalists' accounts. Our... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Values and Beliefs