Neo-institutional Theory Research Articles

한국 무용정책의 경로진화 과정 분석

The purpose of this study is to bring about the historical significance of dance policy in Korea''s cultural and artistic promotion policy, and to present an ideal way of evolution. To this end, the theory of neo-institutionalism was set as a quasi-gurst and the corresponding policies of cultural and artistic promotion and dance were analyzed by the government. In this process, the focus was on explaining the change in the system of the dance policy and the dependence of the system''s path. As a result, the purpose is to find out how cultural and artistic promotion policies have affected cultural and arts by institutional changes related to dance policies. To this end, the process of how changes in the system have been made so far was analyzed intensively as of 1972, when the Culture and Arts Promotion Act was enacted. Considering the evolutionary analysis and direction of the Korean dance policy, problems regarding cultural and artistic policies and dance policies have emerged continuously. Dance, one of the cultural and artistic fields in particular, has diversified and expanded in social and cultural scope, but public awareness is still much lower than other arts. Therefore, revitalization measures for popularization are needed in terms of performing arts, cultural arts and educational aspects, and policy suggestions, along with the enactment of various laws, are of paramount However, it is urgent for the people to enjoy the culture in their daily lives.

Power dynamics and policy actions in the changing landscape of local school governance

ABSTRACT In this paper, we theorize on local school governance through a multi-method case study of a large-sized Swedish municipality by drawing on neo-institutional theory. In light of a changing governing landscape in Sweden in terms of a ‘re-centralization’, new conditions between the state, the local education authorities (LEA) and the schools have emerged. The aim of this study is to examine what policy actions the LEA employ for governing the school and in what ways that principals respond and handle these policy actions. The results point to the fact that the LEA uses a bench-marking strategy through its quality assurance system and intervene if results are poor. Principals seek support from the LEA, but are anxious that their autonomy will be diminished and therefore function as ‘gate-. The system for quality assurance is appreciated by principals, but standards aimed at framing discursive communication on quality are criticized. Principals turn to managers below the superintendent, which creates a tension between managers. The study shows that different levels and actors must be taken into account in order to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the multi-layered field of local policy enactment.

Economic Growth of CEMAC: Does Institutional quality Matter?

Several factors have often been noted to explain the poor performance of the CEMAC economies. In addition to the traditional factors of economic growth, institutional variables are crucial in explaining the growth of countries. This paper aimed at investigating the relationship between institutional quality and economic growth using neo-institutional theory and neoclassical theory of growth. First difference and system Generalized Method of Moments are applied on the six countries of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community for the period of 1996 to 2014. All the coefficients of the institutional variables are positive except for the quality of regulation and control of corruption. There is a positive and significant relationship between political stability and economic growth in CEMAC zone. This study recommends that political stability should be reinforced for an increase in the economic growth of the CEMAC zone.

The Calls for Universal Social Protection by International Organizations: Constructing a New Global Consensus

Universalism has become a lead idea of global social politics, and of global social security in particular, first voiced in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and renewed in recent calls for “Social Security for All” and “Universal Health Coverage,” and in the Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals launched by the World Bank and the International Labour Organization in 2016. This article analyses the idea of a universal right to social protection, as recently articulated by international organizations. According to J. W. Meyer’s neo-institutionalist theory of world society (Krücken & Drori, 2009; Meyer, 2007), universalism is a world-cultural norm, and international organizations are proponents of world culture. This article is based on the assumption that the meaning of universalism is not fixed, but that international organizations construct the norm in changing ways to secure worldwide acceptance and applicability, considering that states have very diverse socio-economic conditions and socio-cultural backgrounds. Accordingly, the article analyses how international organizations construct the cultural idea of universalism as well as institutional models of universal social protection. The finding is that the recent calls for universalism represent a new interpretation of universalism that refers to individual entitlements to benefits rather than collective development, and that this global consensus was reached by constructing the norm in a way to leave room for interpretation and adaptation. However, the price of consensus is the attenuation of the norm, by allowing particularistic interpretations and by weakening the content of the right to social protection. The article also seeks to explain the rise of the new global consensus and identify its limitations.

Comparative Employment Relations: Institutional and Neo-Institutional Theories

Comparative employment relations (CER) has enjoyed a resurgence of interest and scholarly research in recent years. A significant reason is the rising tide of globalization and its present and future impact on employment relations institutions and practices. Rather quickly the furthest corners of the Earth have become interconnected in an international division of labor and system of market exchange, inevitably raising questions about the nature and extent of change in national employment relations systems and the degree to which they are converging to a similar model.

Executive Compensation, Sustainable Compensation Policy, Carbon Performance and Market Value

AbstractWe examine the interrelationships among executive compensation, environmental‐social‐governance‐based (ESG) sustainable compensation policy, carbon performance and market value. Using one of the largest datasets to date, consisting of 4379 firm‐year observations, covering a period of 15 years (2002–2016) from 13 industrialized European countries and insights from neo‐institutional theory (NIT), our findings are fourfold. First, our results suggest that process‐oriented carbon performance is positively associated with market value, whereas actual carbon performance has no effect on market value. Second, we show that the market value–process‐oriented carbon performance nexus is moderated by executive compensation. Third, our results indicate that executive compensation has a positive effect on process‐oriented carbon performance, but has no similar effect on actual carbon performance. Fourth, we show that the process‐oriented carbon performance–executive compensation nexus is reinforced for companies that adopt ESG‐based sustainable compensation policy. Our results are generally robust to controlling for governance mechanisms, alternative measures/estimations and endogeneities. Overall, our evidence supports the legitimization aspect of NIT and suggests that the market tends to reward firms with superior process‐oriented carbon performance instead of undervaluing firms with excessive actual carbon emissions. This implies that firms appear to use incentive‐based mechanisms to symbolically improve their process‐oriented carbon performance without substantively improving their actual carbon performance.

Introduction to NJWLS 2020-1

This issue of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies collects four new articles. In Cultural Obstacles in Transnational Trade Union Cooperation in Europe, Bengt Larsson aims to understand cultural differences that are seen as obstacles to cooperation by trade union representatives. Based on 38 interviews with 46 trade union officials from nine European countries, Larsson identifies the major cultural obstacles for cooperation. Even though noncultural factors – such as financial and network resources, different priorities, and differences in national labor market policies and regulations – are major obstacles for successful cooperation among trade unions, cultural factors play an important role in hampering cooperation. With inspiration from neo-institutional theory and organization theory, Larsson conceptualizes union culture in relation to norms, values, and meanings drawn from broader society. The findings of the study point to language and translation issues, differences experienced in cultural values and everyday practices, and differences in issues relating to ideology and identity regarding member orientation, negotiation, mobilization of members, etc. (...)

Transparencia operativa de las comunidades autónomas españolas mediante sus portales de datos abiertos

Once open data initiatives are consolidated worldwide, it is important to find out if the Spanish regional open data portals are useful for active transparency. To this end, we developed an indicator to assess the existence of information and its reusable quality in three periods of time (2013, 2015 and 2018). Then, we inquired about the existence of differentiated groups of regional governments using, when necessary, cluster analysis. We found indications that there are two conglomerates of governments: advanced and lagged. These findings are in line with those offered by two opposing views on the dissemination of information from the public sector: agency and neo-institutional theories.

Making it real: the institutionalization of collaboration through formal structure

ABSTRACT Collaboration has achieved widespread acceptance as an indispensable element of healthcare delivery in recent decades, despite modest evidence for its impact on healthcare outcomes. Attempts to understand this seeming paradox have been based mostly in functionalist or conflict-theoretical approaches. Currently lacking, however, is an articulation of how collaborative ideals are embedded in broadly shared beliefs about what healthcare is and how it operates. In this article, we examine how language used in the CanMEDS competency framework and in two guides for Family Health Teams construct idealized versions of rational, autonomous physicians and primary care organizations, respectively. Informed by phenomenological sociology and neo-institutional theory, we characterize these documents as elements of formal structure, the putative “blueprints” for healthcare planning and activity. Drawing on this analysis, we argue that these documents and “collaborative” formal structures in general, not only function as tools to make healthcare more collaborative, but also create an appearance of “real” collaboration, independently of the realities of practice. We argue that they thus instill confidence that the current healthcare system functions according to deep-seated societal values of justice and progress. We conclude by emphasizing the potentially distorting influence of this on efforts to understand and improve healthcare.

Institutions: Everywhere But Not Everything

Recent critiques by Alvesson, Hallett, and Spicer have characterized neo-institutional theory (NIT) specifically as confronting a mid-life crisis and institutional theory (IT) more generally as uninhibited. While offering valid points, these critiques lack a fundamental understanding of how organizational institutionalism (OI) has become distinct from NIT. In contrast to NIT’s master hypothesis of isomorphism and focus on structural determinism, OI has made remarkable progress in explaining institutional variation and change. Notably, like organization theory more generally, OI is not a coherent theory, but rather a big tent community with its own set of internal differences, and at times confusing concepts. Rather than abandoning the concept of institutions, we suggest continued progress in OI requires greater clarification. Institutions are everywhere, but not everything, so it is important for researchers to specify which institutions are being studied, distinguish between institutions and culture, and ascertain the relationship between institutions and organizations.

Neo-Kurumsal Perspektif ile Vergi Uyumsuzluğunu Anlamak: Türkiye’deki Bir Kamuoyu Araştırmasından Bulgular

Conventionally, those engaging in tax non-compliance are explained as rational economic actors doing so when the benefits outweigh the costs. However, many individuals are still compliant to their tax regimes even when the pay-off from tax evasion is greater than the costs. The result is the emergence of a social actor perspective that gives primacy to tax morale when explaining tax non-compliance. Through the lens of neo-institutionalist theory, this approach argues that citizens behave in ways that reflect the normative, cultural-cognitive and regulatory rules of their institutional environments. To test this theory, we have analyzed a representative micro survey of 2,528 citizens in Turkey. The finding we have obtained in this paper using an econometric analysis is that high tax morale is significantly more likely when there is trust in government (the normative dimension), feeling of belonging to the nation (the cultural-cognitive dimension) and perceptions of the risk and severity of punishment (regulatory-instrumental dimension). It displays the importance of the tax morale approach when explaining and tackling tax non-compliance in Turkey.

Cross-country determinants of IFRS for SMEs adoption

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the influence of environmental and institutional factors on the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standard for small and medium-sized entities (IFRS for SMEs). This study used the neo-institutional theory and the economic theory of networks to explain why countries choose to adopt IFRS for SMEs. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on logistic regression analysis to investigate 177 countries, including 77 jurisdictions that adopted IFRS for SMEs between 2009 and 2015. Findings The findings confirm that the adoption of IFRS for SMEs is significantly related to law enforcement quality, culture, trading networks and economic growth. At the institutional level, coercive and normative isomorphism was found to be positively associated with IFRS for SMEs adoption. The results show also that the quality of the audit has no significant effect on the adoption of IFRS for SMEs. However, the joint effect of the quality of audit and quality of law enforcement is significantly related to the adoption of IFRS for SMEs. Practical implications The study contributes to a better understanding of the factors influencing the implementation of IFRS for SMEs standard across the globe and could be used to predict a country’s decision to adopt this standard. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature on international accounting harmonization by examining both environmental and institutional factors that influence the adoption of IFRS for unlisted private companies.

Dynamic approach to the study of institutions in green economy: macroeconomics, regions and industries

The paper extensively reviews the implementation processes of the Association Agreements between the European Union and Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine in the area of environment. The correlation between the implementation processes of the Association Agreements on the environment with the institutional and neo-institutional theories is determined. The most complementary elements of the neo-institutional theory regarding institutional processes for the implementation of the Association Agreement between the EU and Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine in relation to the environment are developed. The neo-institutional methodology of environmental management based on the formation of 'institutional ecosystem' is scientifically reviewed and substantiated. The scientific elements that support its methodological integrity are defined: 'institutional dominants', 'institutional replications', and 'institutional players'. A decomposition of these concepts within the framework of modern economic-ecological and neo-institutional theory, and their connection in the context of the formation of the national institutional model of eco-management is analysed.

A dynamic approach to the study of institutions in a green economy: macroeconomics, regions and industries

The paper extensively reviews the implementation processes of the Association Agreements between the European Union and Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine in the area of environment. The correlation between the implementation processes of the Association Agreements on the environment with the institutional and neo-institutional theories is determined. The most complementary elements of the neo-institutional theory regarding institutional processes for the implementation of the Association Agreement between the EU and Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine in relation to the environment are developed. The neo-institutional methodology of environmental management based on the formation of 'institutional ecosystem' is scientifically reviewed and substantiated. The scientific elements that support its methodological integrity are defined: 'institutional dominants', 'institutional replications', and 'institutional players'. A decomposition of these concepts within the framework of modern economic-ecological and neo-institutional theory, and their connection in the context of the formation of the national institutional model of eco-management is analysed.

The Institutionalization of „Cashless Poland”. Values, Norms, Sanctions and Grand Narrations in the SMEs’ Perspective on the Adoption of Cashless Payments

As more and more societies are transforming into cashless economies, questions about the social nature of this transformation are arising. With this paper we present specific insights into the process of the institutionalization of cashlessness in Poland. The paper elaborates the concept that the institutional field of cashlessness emerges with the gradual expansion of interaction structure, solidification of interests, articulation of ideas and finally the creation of sanctions and norms. The paper presents the cashlessness’ institutionalization from the perspective of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). To reach our objectives, we have used empirical data collected in SMEs’ sector research in Poland – 74 individual in-depth interviews with SMEs owners. The analysis is grounded in the qualitative research design and the theory of neo-institutionalism. We show that the complex impact of interlocked social interactions, financial sanctions, narrations, and norms are creating the matrix for SMEs’ decision whether to implement cashless payments into their business.

Incorporation of international risk management standards into federal regulations

Abstract The issue of risk management has gained attention in the field of administration due to the dissemination of international frameworks. In Brazilian federal public administration, risk management is a recent and expanding practice. This research analyzes how international corporate risk management frameworks have been adopted by the federal government through regulations and guidelines. The study adopts the concepts of coercive, normative, and mimetic forces from the neo-institutional theory, and examines the presence of international norms in the Brazilian regulations. Through a qualitative approach, content analysis in documents, norms, interviews, and seminars was used to identify traits of the COSO ERM and ISO 31000/2009 frameworks, which were chosen based on relevance. Results identify important actors pushing for the use of international frameworks, such as international organizations, professional associations, and public agencies, especially those related to government audits. Despite the strong international influence, the Brazilian norms are adapted to the organizations’ context and allowing the maintenance of national autonomy.

When Ukrainian migrant meets a Polish official. Implementing migration policy in the opinions of temporary economic migrants from Ukraine in Poland in a neo-institutional perspective

Abstract Migration processes affect the functioning mechanisms of many institutions and public spheres, on which the state create particular public policies. Migration policy is one of them. The success of its implementation depends on many factors, but institutional actors (officials) play a crucial role in this process. The decisions and projections of migrants with respect to extending their stay in Poland depend on the interpretation of legal, institutional and formal regulations. The aim of the article is to analyze the subjective experiences of Ukrainian economic migrants with Polish institutions and the personnel representing them. Our considerations have been located within the neo-institutional theory. We want to answer the question to what extent the official behaviour patterns of officials in migrant cases adopted as part of formal conditions allow thera to overcome to sense of uncertainty and foster adaptation processes. On the other hand, we would like to determine to what extent contacts of migrants with officials and institutions become a barrier that limits the possibilities of making migration decisions. Studying the subjective interpretations of migrants’ experience is an important element of analysis that will allow us to check how the elements of migration policy are implemented in ‘in action’. Considering the findings resulting from the study, it can be assumed that the functioning of efficient administration should not be limited only to compliance with legal rules, but to go beyond them within morally allowed limits, in order to increase the effectiveness of implemented activities ia many dimensions.

Incorporation of international risk management standards into federal regulations

Abstract The issue of risk management has gained attention in the field of administration due to the dissemination of international frameworks. In Brazilian federal public administration, risk management is a recent and expanding practice. This research analyzes how international corporate risk management frameworks have been adopted by the federal government through regulations and guidelines. The study adopts the concepts of coercive, normative, and mimetic forces from the neo-institutional theory, and examines the presence of international norms in the Brazilian regulations. Through a qualitative approach, content analysis in documents, norms, interviews, and seminars was used to identify traits of the COSO ERM and ISO 31000/2009 frameworks, which were chosen based on relevance. Results identify important actors pushing for the use of international frameworks, such as international organizations, professional associations, and public agencies, especially those related to government audits. Despite the strong international influence, the Brazilian norms are adapted to the organizations’ context and allowing the maintenance of national autonomy.

Executive Compensation, Sustainable Compensation Policy, Carbon Performance and Market Value

We examine the interrelationships among executive compensation, environmental-social-governance-based (ESG) sustainable compensation policy, carbon performance and market value. Using one of the largest datasets to-date, consisting of 4,379 firm-year observations covering a period of 15 years (2002-2016) from 13 industrialised European countries and insights from neo-institutional theory (NIT), our findings are four-fold. First, our results suggest that process-oriented carbon performance is positively associated with market value, whereas actual-carbon performance has no effect on market value. Second, we show that the market value–process-oriented carbon performance nexus is moderated by executive compensation. Third, our results indicate that executive compensation has a positive effect on process-oriented carbon performance, but has no similar effect on actual-carbon performance. Fourth, we show that the process-oriented carbon performance–executive compensation nexus is reinforced for companies that adopt ESG-based sustainable compensation policy. Our results are generally robust to controlling for governance mechanisms, alternative measures/estimations and endogeneities. Overall, our evidence supports legitimisation aspect of NIT and suggests that the market tends to reward firms with superior process-oriented carbon performance instead of undervaluing firms with excessive actual-carbon emissions. This implies that firms appear to use incentive-based mechanisms to symbolically improve their process-oriented carbon performance without substantively improving their actual-carbon performance.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ІМПЛЕМЕНТАЦІЇ ПАРАДИГМИ ЕКОНОМІЧНОГО РОЗВИТКУ В ЕКОНОМІКУ УКРАЇНИ

An analysis of the features of the inclusion of the paradigm of sustainable development has been done in the institutional matrix of Ukraine's economy based on the study of global trends and global risks in combination with determining the current state of development of the national economy, the nature of its dominant institutions. The hypothesis of the greatest suitability is put forward of the concept of inclusive development for the inclusion of a system of principles of the paradigm of sustainable development in the national doctrine of increasing the country's competitiveness in the international market. There are two components of inclusive development - process and goal-oriented. The goal is to reduce poverty and inequality as a result of the process of its broad participation in decision-making and production activities based on ensuring equal opportunities for actors to realize human potential, regardless of their ethnicity, gender, territorial affiliation, religion. Based on the use of methodological principles of neo-institutional theory (theories of D. North, as well as D. Adzhimuglu and J. Robinson), the role of extractive institutions in the processes of economic system development is revealed. The extractive institutions are classified as system-forming elements in the national economy of Ukraine and the management system itself as "restricted access procedures". The latter is based on restricting access to economic and political resources, which determines the nature of distribution processes. A historical digression on the formation and development of extractive institutions in Ukraine has been done. Ways to reform the institutional matrix of the domestic model are proposed, namely the introduction of the following conceptual changes: the formation of effective institutions of property rights specification, reducing the share of extractive institutions by breaking the mechanism of rent motivation, increasing the efficiency of transplantation of institutions based on blocking their functioning, balance of interests of economic entities.