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Institutions, Communication and Values / by Wilfred Dolfsma
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: SpringerLink Bücher | Springer eBook Collection | Springer ebook collection / Palgrave Economics and Finance Collection 2000 - 2013Publisher: Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Description: Online-Ressource (X, 168 p, online resource)ISBN:- 9780230250666
- 1282673610
- 338.9
- 338.5 22
- HD87-87.55
- HB99.5
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Summary: Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, as well as the changes they may undergo, is fundamentally imbued in language and communication. In analysing the role of socio-cultural values, this book argues that communication and language is inseparable from both the economy and a meaningful understanding of institutions.PPN: PPN: 1657430367Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-PEO | ZDB-2-PEF | ZDB-2-SXEF | ZDB-2-SEB | BSZ-2-PEF
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Market and Society: How Do They Relate, and How Do They Contribute to Welfare?; 3 Institutions, Institutional Change and Language; 4 Structure, Agency and the Role of Values in Processes of Institutional Change; 5 'Silent Trade' and the Supposed Continuum between OIE and NIE; 6 Knowledge Coordination and Development via Market, Hierarchy and Gift Exchange; 7 Making Knowledge Work: Intra-firm Networks, Gifts and Innovation
8 Path Dependence, Initial Conditions and Routines in Organizations: the Toyota Production System Re-examined9 Paradoxes of Modernist Consumption: Reading Fashions; 10 Institutionalist Law and Economics and Values: the Case of Personal Bankruptcy Law; 11 Conclusions; Notes; References; Index
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