AI & Institutions

Event, Next event, WINIR Conference, Young Scholars

WINIR YOUNG SCHOLARS WORKSHOP ON AI AND INSTITUTIONS (ONLINE, MAY 2025) — Artificial Intelligence (AI) is profoundly transforming the global landscape, reshaping not only technological innovation but also institutional operations and social structures. This Symposium seeks to critically interrogate the intricate and multidimensional impacts of AI across diverse institutional domains. Specifically, it aims to explore the intersections of technological advancements and societal structures through the lens of institutional theory, considering how AI both disrupts and reconstitutes

Bridging Divides

Event, Next event, WINIR Conference, Young Scholars

WINIR YOUNG SCHOLARS PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON BRIDGING DIVIDES (PITTSBURGH, USA, SEPTEMBER 2024) — Institutional theory can be used as a starting point to help us look at how societies with deep cultural and political differences can coexist peacefully and thrive amidst the challenges posed by globalization and technological revolutions. It can help us scrutinise existing governance and social arrangements to manage growing disparities, exacerbated by information technology, immigration, and cultural exchanges, leading to a crisis in political and governance frameworks.

Technology & Institutional Change

Event, WINIR Conference, Young Scholars

WINIR YOUNG SCHOLARS PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGY & INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE (CATANIA, ITALY, SEPTEMBER 2023) — Technological development has become a driving force in shaping and transforming societies, revolutionizing their structures, processes, and governance mechanisms. The complex dynamics between technology and institutional change is today a vital area of interdisciplinary research, involving economics, geography, law, sociology, philosophy, politics, among other disciplines.

Technology & Society

Event, Online, Young Scholars

WINIR YOUNG SCHOLARS WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY (ONLINE, MAY 2023) — Rapid technological progress has the power to unlock human potential while simultaneously disrupting social, political, legal, and economic processes. Institutional paradigms urge a reconsideration, to evaluate our understanding of the relationship between humans and technology/machines, and whether technology is itself an institution.

WINIR @ SIE

Event, Sponsorship, WINIR Session

In 2017 WINIR sponsored a session on institutional economics – focusing on how institutions function, evolve, evaluated, and transformed – at the 58th Annual Conference of the Società Italiana degli Economisti (Italian Economic Association) held at University of Calabria in Italy.

Transformation of Institutions in Politics, Law and the Economy

Event, Sponsorship, WINIR-Sponsored

In 2026 WINIR sponsored the Third Conference of the Forum for Institutional Thought on “Institutions and Survival: Institutional Transformations in Politics, Law and the Economy.” Researchers, PhD candidates, students, policymakers, and practitioners are invited to participate in the international conference from 19-20 June 2026 at the University of Białystok (and online).

Institutions & Survival II

Event, Sponsorship, WINIR-Sponsored

In 2024 WINIR will sponsor a second international conference of the Forum for Institutional Thought on the theme of “Institutions & Survival”. This event will be held at the University of Bialystok in Bialystok, Poland, with the aim of showcasing the latest developments in institutional economics to an audience of research and teaching staff, PhD students, politicians, activists, and entrepreneurs from Poland and abroad.