The Ronald Coase Institute encourages careful, useful analysis of the institutions that govern real economies and affect transaction costs. Who is eligible? Social scientists early in their academic/professional careers and advanced graduate students, in economics, political science, law, and...

This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and academic systems who share an interest in pushing forward theoretical and/or empirical frontiers of institutional research.

The Workshop welcomes contributions dealing with such topics as: - Exit-voice-loyalty: Hirschman and beyond - Exit-voice-loyalty – social structure and power differential - Responses to decline and recovery mechanisms in economy and society - Grassroots movements as alternatives to large...

The question of embeddedness has been recently raised to become one of the widely discussed issues of various contemporary social sciences. Embeddedness can be broadly understood as the degree to which individuals or organizations (firms, groups) are enmeshed and entangled in a given social...

General theme: Knowledge about assembling and reassembling organizations is now more important than ever. In the light of the current economic crisis, globalization, sustainable futures, financial regulation and social welfare are issues of immense importance for the second decade of this...