What is the unique nature of social capital that differentiates itself from other forms of capital?
How should we conceptualize and operationalize social capital? What are the major drivers …

Defining the nature of the relationship between contractual and relational governance is
critical for understanding how to maintain commitment and coordination between private …

Although foundational organization theory recognized the role of both formal and informal
elements, for the past two decades scholarship appears to have primarily attended to the …

This paper addresses the paradox that despite all organizational change towards flatter and
postmodern organizations, hierarchical order is quite persistent. We develop a differentiated …

We explore the link between a firm's organization of research—specifically, its choice to
operate a centralized or decentralized R&D structure—and the type of innovation it …

Agricultural cooperatives have changed considerably in recent decades. In witnessing these
structural changes, scholars have proffered analyses of nontraditional ownership models …

We augment transaction cost economics' bounded rationality assumption with heuristics
(framing) and cognitive biases to expand the understanding of hierarchical governance in …

Existing academic literature has discussed contracts and relational governance as the key
mechanisms that help alliance partners address problems of cooperation and coordination …

The paper provides a novel perspective for the examination of urban public transport (UPT)
systems based on a literature review of new institutional economics (NIE). New institutional …

We introduce a model of interorganizational governance within regional clusters. Drawing
on the “new institutional economics” literature, we show how firms' governance designs are …