Institutional Arbitrage: How Actors Exploit Institutional Difference

How Effective Are Institutional Reforms?

How better informed are the institutional investors?

Article history: Received 7 December 2008 Received in revised form 23 November 2009 Accepted 4 December 2009 Available online 24 December 2009

Institutional Analysis and Institutional Design Christoph Engel

The obvious is often not self-explanatory. We obviously interact with others in a meaningful way. This presupposes that we can predict reasonably well what another person is going to do, and how he is going to react to our own moves. Yet psychology demonstrates the almost unlimited plasticity of human behavioural dispositions. Why are we nonetheless able to interact successfully? This book clai...

How institutional forces, ideas and actors shaped population health planning in Australian regional primary health care organisations

BACKGROUND Worldwide, there are competing norms driving health system changes and reorganisation. One such norm is that of health systems' responsibilities for population health as distinct from a focus on clinical services. In this paper we report on a case study of population health planning in Australian primary health care (PHC) organisations (Medicare Locals, 2011-2015). Drawing on institu...

Free Cash Flow, Institutional Ownership and Long-Term Performance

Performance appraisal is a process which help shareholders make informed and optimal investment decisions. In recent decades, a long stream of research has devoted particular attention to the importance and impact of financial decisions on firm performance and firm value. The present study thus is primarily concerned with investigating the association between free cash flow and institutional ow...