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Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics

James G. March, +1 more
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The state has lost its position of centrality in contemporary political theory and an emphasis on bargaining among conflicting interest have usurped ideas that embedded morality in institutions, such as the legal system and the corporation, as foundations for political identity as discussed by the authors.
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The state has lost its position of centrality in contemporary political theory ideas of moral individualism and an emphasis on bargaining among conflicting interest have usurped ideas that embedded morality in institutions, such as the legal system and the corporation, as foundations for political identity. The authors propose a new theory of political behavior that re-invigorates the role of institutions - from laws and bureaucracy to rituals, symbols and ceremonies - as essential to understanding the modern political and economic systems that guide contemporary life.

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A public management for all seasons

Christopher Hood
- 01 Mar 1991 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as "New Public Management" (NPM), the intellectual provenance of those ideas, explanations for their apparent persuasiveness in the 1980 s; and criticisms which have been made of the new doctrines.
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The myopia of learning

Daniel A. Levinthal, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1993 - 
TL;DR: The imperfections of learning are not so great as to require abandoning attempts to improve the learning capabilities of organizations, but that those imperfections suggest a certain conservatism in expectations.

Myopia of learning

Daniel A. Levinthal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the ways organizations approach these problems through simplification and specialization and how those approaches contribute to three forms of learning myopia, the tendency to overlook distant times, distant places, and failures, and identify some ways in which organizations sustain exploration in the face of a tendency to overinvest in exploitation.
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Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms

Peter A. Hall, +2 more
- 01 Dec 1996 - 
TL;DR: The term "New Institutionalism" is a term that now appears with growing frequency in political science as mentioned in this paper, and there is considerable confusion about just what the new institutionalism is, how it differs from other approaches, and what sort of promise or problems it displays.
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'Implicit' and 'Explicit' CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility

Dirk Matten, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of how and why corporate social responsibility (CSR) differs among countries and how it changes, and apply two schools of thought in institutional theory to conceptualize the differences between CSR in the USA and Europe.