MNEs and policy networks: Institutional embeddedness and strategic choice

Institutional embeddedness and the strategic leeway of actors: the case of the German therapeutical biotech industry

This article aims at examining the strategic leeway of firms pursuing business strategies incompatible with the dominant institutional environment in a given market economy. In order to evaluate this question, we focus on the therapeutic biotech industry and draw a German–British comparison. Proponents of the varieties-of-capitalism (VoC) approach assume that German firms underperform in this i...

Strategic oversight and the institutional determinants of legislative policy control

This dissertation seeks to explain variation in legislative strategies to control policymaking across institutional contexts. Of these many strategies, I focus particularly on the use of statutory language meant to direct agency action and on the use of oversight hearings. I argue that while low levels of oversight activity need not imply that a legislature is helplessly abdicating policymaking...

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

The Limits to Embeddedness: Triangular Bargaining and the Institutional Foundations of Organizational Networks

The Institutional Dimension of Salience: Common Understanding and Embeddedness

Since Thomas Schelling’s pioneering work, salience and focal points appear to be useful concepts to explain how coordination is possible. However, game theory has struggled for forty years in trying to give to salience a formal expression. Recent works have succeeded in integrating salience in formal models. However, these works do not explain the origins of salience. This paper argues that sal...