Economic self-interest and social considerations are the key determinants of public support for market reforms in transition countries. However, political strategies that rely mainly on public support for pushing through economic reforms have limited relevance if the prevailing institutional...

We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of government-private sector meetings, a variable we argue is connected to State capacity. Survey...

Multinational corporations (MNC) search increasingly for lead market knowledge and technological expertise around the globe. We investigate whether their subsidiaries gain access to these valuable sources of host country knowledge to the same degree as domestic rivals. We develop a theoretical...

Multinational corporations are operating in complex business environments. They are confronted with contradictory institutional demands that often represent mutually incompatible expectations of various audiences. Managing these demands poses new organizational challenges for the corporation....

Supply chain scholars have begun to recognize the institutional influences on supply chains, yet scarce attention has been directed towards the fact that global supply chains often comprise different institutions. This omission represents a severe shortcoming because the understanding of what...

The institutional decisions regarding the 2009–2010 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic displayed how the World Health Organization's (WHO) role as the international organization in charge of coordinating the pandemic response amounts to an exercise of authority. Notably, the 11 June, 2009 Pandemic...

We outline a new voting procedure for representative democracies. This procedure should be used for important decisions only and consists of two voting rounds: a randomly-selected subset of the citizens is awarded a one-time voting right. The parliament also votes, and the two decisions are...

During the first decade of this century, Germany saw a radical transformation of its old age security system. The coalition of social democrats and the green party transformed the traditional German pension system into a three-pillar-system and reduced the generosity of the pay-as-you-go-pillar....