This paper is concerned with why and how multinational companies (MNCs) voluntarily engage in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially in social standards. The first part describes the prevailing perspectives on the CSR debate. Then, with the New Institutionalism in Sociology, an alternative view on CSR is discussed. The third part develops the argument that the ‘traditional’ rational ...

Abstract This study contextualises the official introduction of double entry bookkeeping in Royal Navy, 1832. The objective is to consider how accounting developed and changed through competing logics path dependent processes provide insights explanations those changes Navy. An innovative theoretical framework combines longer-term lens historical institutionalism with roles key actors investiga...

Abstract Institutionalism gives priority to structure over agency. Yet institutions have never developed and operated without the intervention of interested groups. This paper develops a conceptual framework for role agency in historical institutionalism. Based on recent contributions following coalitional turn drawing insights from sociological institutionalism, it argues that plays key creati...

Designing family technologies is a dynamic challenge that may benefit from an equally dynamic theoretical perspective. We propose adapting the paradigm of segmented institutionalism, previously applied to the analysis of organizational work, to investigations of family technologies. We provide an example of our own work designing technology with divorced families to highlight this perspective’s...

Great Power Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001. More than afty years have passed since Hans Morgenthau introduced “realism” as an approach to the study of international relations. Since then, the approach has withstood not only a steady assault from such external quarters as liberal institutionalism, the democratic peace school, and “constructivism” but also a marked divisive tendency. Splin...

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...