 | Arne L. Kalleberg, Ivar Berg - 1987 - 278 pages
...ideologies (or tapestries of ideologies) that give these institutions their legitimacy. In North's words: Institutions are a set of rules, compliance procedures, and moral and ethical behavioral norms designed to constrain the behavior of Individuals in the Interests of maximizing the... | |
 | Colin Thain, Maurice Wright - 1995 - 594 pages
...resources, legitimacy, standards of evaluation, perceptions, identities and a set of meanings. They provide a set of rules, compliance procedures, and moral and ethical behavioural norms which buffer environmental influence, modify individual motives, regulate self-interest behaviour and... | |
 | John Shannon Brady, Beverly Crawford, Sarah Elise Wiliarty - 1999 - 550 pages
...concept of institutions is indeed a contested one. We follow Douglass North's rather broad definition: Institutions are a set of rules, compliance procedures, and moral and ethical behavioral norms embedded in those rules and compliance procedures designed to constrain the behavior... | |
 | Maurice Wright - 2002 - 656 pages
...resources, legitimacy, standards of evaluation, perceptions, identities and a set of meanings. They provide a set of rules, compliance procedures, and moral and ethical behavioural norms, which buffer environmental influence, modify individual motives, regulate self-interest behaviour and... | |
 | Tom Everett-Heath - 2003 - 304 pages
...competitive relationships, which constitute a society and more specifically an economic order. ... Institutions are a set of rules, compliance procedures, and moral and ethical behavioural norms designed to constrain the behaviour of individuals. (cited in D. Feeny, 'The Demand for and Supply... | |
 | Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, Richard P. Saller - 2007 - 17 pages
...arranging for a series of individual contracts with 41 See, eg, North 1981: 201-2 (emphasis added): "Institutions are a set of rules, compliance procedures, and moral and ethical behavioral norms designed to constrain the behavior of individuals in the interests of maximizing the... | |
 | Parthasarathi Banerjee - 2007 - 286 pages
...continue to remain the foundational inspiration as it has been for example in North (1981: 201-202) "Institutions are a set of rules, compliance procedures, and moral and ethical behavioral norms designed to constrain the behavior of individuals in the interests of maximizing the... | |
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Institutions are a set of rules, compliance procedures, and moral and ethical behavioral norms designed to constrain the behavior of individuals in the interests of maximizing the wealth or utility of principals... 