A central tenet of economic sociology is that culture and regulatory institutions help to constitute the nature of economic actors and guide their actions, thus affecting economic outcomes (see, e.g., DiMaggio, 1994; Smelser and Swedberg, 1994). As socially organised agents operating in different...

This paper addresses deinstitutionalisation from a longitudinal perspective. Drawing onthe case of software exports policymaking in Costa Rica, it analyses persistence andchange paying particular attention to formation of dissensus, understood as lack ofunanimity on the value of an activity that...

Increased complexity and rapid pace of change demand more from people responsible forregional development at various levels of activity. This paper has its roots in a belief that themore complex situations are the more regional development is dependent on the leadership andnetwork management...