Despite a legacy of research that emphasizes contradictions and their role in explaining change, less is understood about their character or the mechanisms that support them. This gap is especially problematic when making causal claims about the sources of institutional change and our overall...

The language of resilience is increasingly used by International organizations that seek to respond to contemporary social, economic, and environmental crises. This paper focuses on the World Bank’s World Development Reports , and its uses of resilience. By deploying a quantitative critical...

Evelina Sander rekonstruiert den Demographie-Diskurs in Deutschland. mit Blick auf das Personalfeld und setzt dabei den Schwerpunkt auf die Periode nach der Jahrtausendwende. In ihrer auf der Wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse basierenden Untersuchung geht die Autorin folgenden Fragen nach:...

Comparative political economists who use historical institutionalism have made great contributions in describing what happened in cases of political economic change in advanced industrialized democracies, but they have great difficulty explaining much of why this happened. This paper argues that...

The study of policy discourse comprises actor-centered and content-oriented approaches. We attempt to close the gap between the two kinds of approaches by introducing a new methodology for the analysis of political discourse called Discourse Network Analysis. It is based on social network...

Commonly shared conceptualizations of resources are scant in academic management research which strikes as somewhat peculiar since resources and their allocation thereof have long been recognised to be at the heart of the competitive advantage and performance of a firm. The research literature...