Institutional Re(turns) and the Strategic – Relational Approach

Institutional (Re)Turns and the Strategic-Relational Approach

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Reflections on developments in institutional theory: Toward a relational approach

In this review article, we reflect upon recent developments in institutional theory with particular emphasis on first, how organizational fields have been conceived and second, on how action has been conceptualized and incorporated into institutional accounts. We show that progress has been made in regard to our understanding of field level processes and the role of institutional actors. Howeve...

Strategic Returns to International Diversification

Opinions expressed herein do not necessarily concur with the Federal Reserve Board or any other employees of the Federal R.eserve System. The authors are also grateful co Stephen Brown for providing some of the international stock market data. Some of the UK stock market data used in the analysis herein were extracted from the London Share Price Database, which is a copyright work of the L,ondo...

Strategic Behavior, Financing, and Stock Returns

In this paper I analyze how debt structure and the strategic interaction between shareholders and creditors in the event of default a¤ect expected stock returns. By endogenizing shareholders’decision to default, the model generates new predictions linking …rm characteristics to expected stock returns through an intuitive economic mechanism. In particular, the model predicts that expected stock ...

Strategic Management and Universities ’ Institutional Development