WINIR Conferences are relatively large events, with a planned attendance of around 200, funded and organised by WINIR, normally held over 3-4 days. Accepted papers can relate to the main conference theme or any other aspect of institutional research, in line with WINIR’s aims and research priorities. All attendees must be WINIR members.
WINIR CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE (ROME, ITALY, JULY 2026) — Governance refers to those rules that clearly bind, define, and enable an organization’s scope of action, authority, and objectives. Much recent institutional research has focused…
WINIR CONFERENCE ON INSTITUTIONS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SHARED PROSPERITY (PRAGUE, CZECHIA, SEPTEMBER 2025) — Interdisciplinary research plays a key role in advancing our understanding of how to build institutional environments that support entrepreneurship as a catalyst for shared prosperity and social…
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…
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…
WINIR CONFERENCE ON POLYCENTRIC GOVERNANCE (ONLINE, SEPTEMBER 2022) — The governance of almost all complex social or natural resource systems is polycentric: it involves distributed, nested and partially overlapping patterns of competitive and cooperative relationships among relatively autonomous private and…
WINIR CONFERENCE ON INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES (LUND, SWEDEN, SEPTEMBER 2019) — While a majority of the world population has experienced improved living standards, there seems to be rising popular discontent with globalization as economic inequalities both between and within nations are…
WINIR CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM (HONG KONG, CHINA, SEPTEMBER 2018) — The twenty-first century will see major disruptions to the global balance of politico-economic power. There is a recognised need for new or enhanced international orders, to…
WINIR CONFERENCE ON OPEN SOCIETIES (UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS, SEPTEMBER 2017) — As the adverse impacts of financial crises, inequalities in wealth and income, globalized trade and capital mobility have given rise to authoritarian populism, concerns have been raised regarding the possible…
WINIR CONFERENCE ON HUMAN BEHAVIOUR (BOSTON, USA, SEPTEMBER 2016) — Scholars generally agree that institutions coordinate human behaviour and to a certain extent mould it into recognizable patterns, but there is much less consensus regarding the precise mechanisms involved. We…
WINIR CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT & GLOBALIZATION (RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, SEPTEMBER 2015) — While economic development depends on investment and technology, it is now widely accepted that appropriate political, legal, economic and other social institutions have also to be in…
INAUGURAL WINIR CONFERENCE ON INSTITUTIONS THAT CHANGE THE WORLD (LONDON, UK, SEPTEMBER 2014) — Although the nature and role of institutions are matters of active research in several academic disciplines, including (but not limited to) economics, history, law, philosophy, politics…