195 In chapter 6(a) Professor Weick has argued that enactment is a "roomy framework" that reminds people of a central fact of organiza-tionallife: "people often produce part of the environment they face" (Pondy and Mitroff, 1979: 17). He goes on to say that enactment: suggests that there are close parallels between what legislators do and what managers do. Both groups construct reality through ...

background following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, i focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. international organizations’ mandates influence government behavior. dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments’ formulation of national policy. and finally, mounting...

Some of the most fruitful insights generated by social science in recent decades flow from explorations of how institutions, under­ stood as sets of regularized practices with a rule-like quality, struc­ ture the behavior of political and economic actors. I It is not surpris­ ing that attention has now turned to the second-order problem of explaining when and how institutions change. 2 In conce...

The author studied the institutionalism theoretical foundations, stated each founder’s contribution to economic theory development and highlighted formation in stages characterizing one. main postulates are accented an attempt consider some distinctive features of stage is made study. article considers evolution as well institutional thought school. also characteristics similar elements theorie...

Post-Keynesian institutionalism (PKI)—a branch of the (original) institutionalist school that builds on common ground with post-Keynesianism—constitutes a robust tradition secure foundations and broad methodological, analytical, policy contours. Since its emergence in 1980s, has consistently been ahead economic mainstream shedding light real-world problems. Drawing work various heterodox econom...