Five articles have made the shortlist for the 2023 Elinor Ostrom Prize, which will be announced at the WINIR Conference on Institutional Innovation & Evolution in Catania, Italy (20-23 September 2023. The award will be announced at WINIR 2023 in Catania, Italy.
This year’s WINIR Young Scholars Pre-Conference Workshop will feature an exciting range of papers from brilliants young scholars from around the world.
The sessions accepted for WINIR 2024 — which deal with a range of topics in economic history and contemporary society, including power, religion, communities, commons, and corporations — are just one indication of a rich programme with papers spanning multiple disciplines and perspectives.
As usual, the papers accepted for WINIR 2024 cover a broad range of institutional themes and perspectives, spanning a variety of disciplines and relying on a variety of approaches and methodologies.
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.
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.
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The WINIR Conference on Polycentric Governance & the Challenges of the 21st Century featured keynotes by Elizabeth Baldwin (University of Arizona, USA), Tine de Moor (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Harini Nagendra (Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India).
WINIR CONFERENCE ON INSTITUTIONAL RESILIENCE & RECOVERY (PITTSBURGH, USA, SEPTEMBER 2024) — The resilience of governance systems, particularly their ability to respond to and recover from crises (such as economic downturns, political instability and upheaval, or environmental calamities), stands at the forefront of institutional research…
WINIR CONFERENCE ON INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION & EVOLUTION (CATANIA, ITALY, SEPTEMBER 2023) — Understanding when institutions change, how institutional innovations are propagated and how institutional evolution occurs, are key theoretical and empirical questions that have long shaped institutional research in…