WINIR 2026 - Papers
The following accepted papers will be organized into sessions in late June.
* indicates registered author.
Updated 23 June 2026.
A
André Alves* (FGV EAESP, Brazil) & Nicholas Vonortas (George Washington University, USA), “Matching Policy Design to Capabilities: Understanding Brazil’s Innovation Policy-Capability Trajectories”
Laurence Amblard* (INRAE, France), Carsten Mann (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany), “Hybrid Modes of Governance for Gcosystem Services Provision: A Systematic Literature Review”
Christos Andrikopoulos* (Cardiff University, UK), “SME Clusters as Commons: A Governance and Legal Framework for Long-term Socio-economic Sustainability”
T. T. Arvind* (University of York, UK) & Barry Knight* (Centris Trust & University of Staffordshire, UK) “Seeing like a Community? Epistemic Insulation and Governance in the Modern State”
Monika Augustyniak* (Jan Kochanowski University Poland), “Hate Speech in Contemporary Local Government – Experiences and Prospects for Change”
B
Julia Bäring* (Technical University Dortmund, Germany), “Interdisciplinary Networks and Participatory Governance: Strategies for Sustaining Basic Municipal Services in Rural Germany”
Matunga Barwell* (Cardiff University, UK), “The Institutional Production of Statutory Legality in a Multi-level State”
David Beech* (University of Salford, UK), “The Evolutionary Dynamics of Normative Interests in Constitutional Niche Construction Across Levels of Analysis in Different types of socio-political rule making”
Disha Bhavnani* (MicroSave Consulting, India) and Akshat Pathak* (MicroSave Consulting, India), “Is AI Enabling Gender Digital Divide or Bridging it?”
T H Bhuvaneshwari* (Institute for Social and Economic Change, India), “Governing Digital Farms: Institutional Readiness and Interoperability in India’s Digital Agriculture Transition”
Sixtus Bolom-Kotari* (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia), “The Transformation of Public Space in Prague and Bohemia at the Turn of the 19th Century: A ‘Laboratory of Modernisation’”
Graziella Bonanno (University of Calabria, Italy), Christian Green (Department of Electricity and Energy, South Africa), Yasmina Rim Limam (John Cabot University, Italy), Giampaolo Garzarelli* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) & Alberto Batinti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) “Cost Efficiency in Public Health Systems: Provincial Evidence from South Africa”
C
Rosolino Candela* (George Mason University, USA), Vincent J. Geloso (George Mason University, USA) & Nathaniel Webb Smith (Sweet Briar College, USA), “Did Henry Ford Really Pay Efficiency Wages?”
Jaime Carini* (Indiana University, USA) & Paul Dragos Aligica* (George Mason University, USA), “Vincent Ostrom and the Covenantal Analytics of American Federalism: Self-Governance, Democratic Anomalies, and the “Habits of Heart and Mind””
Martha Chadabe* (State University of New York, USA), “Rules of the Game of Compliance: An Institutional Grammar and IAD Analysis of Algorithmic Accountability Artifacts”
Panagiotis Christias* (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), “The European Governance System”
Stefano Ciliberti* (University of Perugia, Italy), “Dynamics and Acceptance of Contractual Terms for Agri-Food Systems in Transition: A Best-Worst Scaling Analysis among Italian Farmers”
David Coldwell* (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), “Ethical Trickle-Down and Governance Discontinuity: Political Leadership and The Fragility of Institutional Integrity in South Africa”
Vanessa Villanueva Collao (Bocconi University, Italy), “Cryptogatekeepers as a Response to Conflicts in Decentralized Finance”
Mauro Costantini* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Alberto Batinti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) & Silvia Polettini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) “Demographic Change and Democratic Trajectories: A Hidden Semi-Markov Approach”
Nicholas Currie* (Beyond Blue Ltd., UK), “Collaborative Governance of Complex Systems”
D
Akshay Deshmukh* (Institute for Social and Economic change, India) & Parmod Kumar (Institute for Social and Economic Change, India), “Assessing the Impact of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) on Farmers’ Welfare in India: An Institutional and Policy Analysis”
Adrian Florin Dinca* (University of Bucharest, Romania), “From Rules-on-Paper to Rules-in-Use: Measuring Behavioral Governance at the Public–Private Interface”
Bryan Druzin* (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), “The Option to Exit: The Impact of Institutional Fragmentation on International Legal Regimes”
E
Anna Elias* (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), “Can ‘Decent Work’ be Institutionalised in the Age of Digital Platform Governance?”
Moustafa Elshiekh* (Hult International Business School), “Organizational Interpretation as a Meso-Level Institutional Mechanism in Governing Emerging Energy Technologies: A Multi-Level Adoption Model in Saudi Arabia”
Korkut Erturk* (University of Utah, USA), “Barzel on Rent Seeking. Governance, Information and Power”
F
David Fadiran* (University of Cape Town, South Africa) & Hammed Amusa (African Development Bank, Ivory Coast), “Political Economy, Competition, Governance, and Local Government Performance”
Elis Feitosa* (University of São Paulo, Brazil) & Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes (University of São Paulo, Brazil), “How Does Polycentric Governance Evolve? Insights from Fisheries Management in the Brazilian Amazon”
Arno Foppe* (Wageningen University, Netherlands), Stefano Pascucci (University of Exeter, UK), Valentina Christina Materia (Wageningen University, Netherlands) & Shayegheh Ashourizadeh (Wageningen University, Netherlands), “When Protest turns into Community-Entrepreneurship: Rule Formation and Identity Building in an Emerging Community-Based Enterprise.”
Virginia Anastasia Fournari* (University of Thessaly, Greece), “Banking and Governance in the 1980s: Changes in the Commercial Bank of Greece”
Camila Paz Ramos Fuenzalida (University of Birmingham, UK), Karina Retamal-Soto* (Universidad de Chile, Chile) & Karina Arias-Yurisch* (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile), “When Coordination Breaks Down: Exploring Misalignments between Institutional Design and Crisis Response in Latin America”
G
Emma Galli* (Sapienza University of Roma, Italy), Roberto Basile (Sapienza University of Roma, Italy), Francesca Centofanti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) & Nadia Fiorino (University of L’Aquila, Italy), “Institutional Quality and Migration Trajectories of Southern Italian Individuals”
Pietro Ghirlanda* (University of Pavia, Italy), “Normatively Justifying the Cooperative Governance of Digital Platforms: A Multi-Level Social Contract Perspective.”
Alexandre Gomes* (State University of Campinas, Brazil), “Mission-Oriented Innovation, State Capacities, and Local Experimentation: The Case of Electric Vehicles in China”
Gabriela Pepeleascov Gomes* (UFPR, Brazil) & Vinicius Klein (UFPR, Brazil), “Regulatory Stability as a Governance Mechanism: Mitigating Political Risk in Port Concessions in Emerging Economies”
Gabriela Pepeleascov Gomes* (UFPR, Brazil), “The Unique Hybridism of Public and Private Boundaries in Port Governance”
Isabel Guerrero* (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru) & Cathy Rubiños* (EM Normandie, France), “Formal Rules, Informal Practices, and Institutional Misfits in Amazonian Forest Governance”
Flavia Guerrieri* (INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, France), Laurence Amblard* (INRAE, France), Pascal Carrère (INRAE, France) & Etienne Polge (INRAE, France), “Adding the State to Hardin’s Herder Problem: The Role of Regional Public Policies in Preserving Upland Grasslands through Pastoralism”
H
Jessica Holl* (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany), “Institutional Design for Combating Corruption in Brazil and the Car Wash Operation”
Ebba Hooft Toomey* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands), Tineke Lambooy* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands) & Rosalien Van ‘t Foort-Diepeveen (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands), “Governance in the Anthropocene: A Multi-Lens Theoretical Analysis of Emerging Non-Human Inclusive Governance Practices”
Ebba Hooft Toomey* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands) & Tineke Lambooy* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands), “The Ecological Paradox of Critical Minerals: A Legal Framework Analysis of the Governance of the Indonesia-EU Nickel Supply Chain for Batteries”
Ebba Hooft Toomey* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands), Tineke Lambooy* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands), “Legally Living Rivers – A Global Empirical Analysis”
J
Juan Pablo Jaramillo-Ramón* (FLACSO, Ecuador) & Carolina Curvale (FLACSO, Ecuador), “Homicidal Violence and State Capacity in Latin America: The Story of the Paper Leviathans”
Joanna Jędrzejewska* (University of Warsaw, Poland), “The Silent Signals of Central Banks: Nonverbal Communication and Monetary Policy”
Tushita Jha* (Mimir Center for Long Term Futures Research, Sweden), Rory Švarc (Arb Research, UK), Ameya Prabhu (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany) & Matthias Bethge (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany), “Jevons’ Boon: On Artificial Intelligence, the Economics of Synthetic Cognitive Labor, and the Expansion of Institutional Viabilities”
Marianne Johnson* (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA), “John R. Commons, Public Institutions, and Good Governance”
Stanislav Jurčišin* (ISREP, Slovakia) “Beyond Capitalism: The Model of Cooperativism as a Systemic Alternative Towards Economic Democracy”
K
Akshaya Kamalnath (Australian National University, Australia) & Victoria Baumfield* (Bond University, Australia) “The Long Arm of the State in the Tech Sector and its Impact on Corporate Purpose”
Torange Khonsari* (London Metropolitan University, UK), “Boundary of Distributive Commons as an Institutional Design Problem”
Vladimir Korovkin* (Moscow School of Management, Russia) & Christopher Hartwell (ZHAW School of Management and Law, Switzerland), “State-Owned (with) Agency: Strategic Leadership, Authoritarian State Capitalism, and SOEs”
L
Maurizio Lisciandra* (LUMSA University, Italy), Giuseppe Terzo (LUMSA University, Italy) & Naomi Fagni (LUMSA University, Italy), “Carbon Pricing and Regional Green Innovation: Evidence from the EU Emissions Trading System”
M
Elisabetta (Lisa) Magnani* (Macquarie University, Australia), “Artificial Intelligence, Investments in Humans and Firm Access to Credit: Employees’ Ivolvement in Times of AI”
Giacomo Maino* (University of Milan, Italy), “The Downsides of Liability Reforms in Healthcare: A Game Theoretical Model of Defensive Medicine”
Marco Mari* (Bocconi University, Italy and MIT Industrial Performance Center, USA) “The Political Nature of the Firm”
Massimiliano Marletta* (University of Catania, Italy), Maurizio Caserta* (University of Catania, Italy), & Francesco Mastroianni (University of Catania, Italy) “Constitutional Compliance as an Incentive Equilibrium: Judges, Prosecutors, and the Structural Evolution of Legal Norms”
Clara Martins Pereira* (Durham Law School, UK), “Artificial Intelligence and the future of financial stability: regulatory and supervisory gaps in the UK framework”
Luana Mathias Souto* (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain), “Reproductive Justice and Data Power: Rethinking Governance in the Age of Femtech”
Arina Matvieieva* (Leiden University, Netherlands) & Mishael van Luipen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), “Constitutional or Administrative? Public Law Pathways for Governing Big Tech in the European Union”
Arina Matvieieva* (Leiden University, Netherlands), “Nothing Hidden That Will Not Be Known: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the EU’s Legal Framework on Disinformation in Addressing Russian Information Warfare”
Mark McAdam* (ADA University, Azerbaijan) & Sebastian Atakan-Zachrau* (University of Siegen, Germany), “Humanomics’ Missing Foundation? Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology as a Missing Link between Humanomics and Institutionalism”
Eva Micheler* (LSE, UK) & Özlem Ata Polat* (Yeditepe University, Turkey), “Regulatory Regimes and Institutional Design in DLT-Based Securities Systems”
Elena Midler* (Saint-Petersburg University, Russia), “Economic Behavior of Entrepreneurs and Environmental Sustainability”
Karoly Mike* (Eötvös University, Hungary), “What Kind of Institution is ESG?”
Delia Montero* (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico), “Water Management in Mexico City: Governance of Public and Private Actors”
Matteo Mostarda* (LUMSA, Italy) “The Mattei Plan for Africa as a Model of Collaborative Governance: Beyond the Extractive Logic of Colonialism and Neocolonialism”
N
Mai Nusir* (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany), Frank Wätzold (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany), Amani Al-Assaf (Univeristy of Jordan, Jordan) & Charlotte Gelring (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany), “Robust Institutions, Deteriorating Ecosystems: Traditional Knowledge-Based Rangeland Governance in the Jordanian Southern Badia”
O
Yemi Oluseun* (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France), “Retention as a Stabilising Organisational Capability in Technology-Mediated Service Firms”
P
Antoine Parent (Université Paris 8, France) & Pierre-Charles Pradier* (Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) “The Debt of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris from 1660 to 1690: A Testbed for Sovereign Default”
Martin Petrin* (Osgoode Hall Law School & Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada), “When AI Hurts: Corporate Responsibility for Agentic AI”
Nathália Pufal (NITEC – Innovation Center, Brazil), Paulo Antônio Zawislak* (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), André Cherubini Alves* (FGV EAESP, Brazil), “Thriving in Innovation Ecosystems: Toward an Ecosystemic Innovation Capability”
R
Karina Retamal-Soto* (Universidad de Chile, Chile), Karina Arias* (Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) & Camila Ramos (Birmingham University, UK), “Institutional Design and Network Motifs in Water Pollution Governance: Analyzing Coordination Patterns in Polycentric Systems.”
Liana Eustacia Reyes* (Purdue University, USA), Jennifer Murtazashvili* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Charles Crabtree (Monash University, Australia) & Dmitrii Kofanov (University of Pittsburgh, USA), “Post-Conflict Constitution Making: Causes and Consequences for Peace”
Natalia Riveros Núñez* (Independent, Paraguay), “Does Regulatory Fragmentation Undermine AI Oversight in Critical Infrastructure? Evidence from the European Union”
Matteo Rizzolli* (LUMSA University of Rome, Italy), Plinio Limata* (LUMSA University of Rome, Italy) & Marco Fabbri (University of Bologna, Italy), “Labor, Convention, and Taking Aversion: A Lab-in-the-Field Test of Competing Theories of Property”
Giacomo Roma* (Bank of Italy, Italy), “Evolution and Quality of Italian Law”
James Rosenberg* (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), “Governance in the Cybernetic State”
Cathy Rubinos* (Normandie Business School, France), “Sequencing Institutional and Infrastructure Investments Under Climate Shocks: An Evolutionary Analysis of Irrigation System Robustness”
S
Veronica Salcerini (Hult International Business School, UK), “The Institutional Paradox of Female Power: Gender Populism and Informal Constraints in Italy”
Andrea Salustri* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Silvia Sacchetti (University of Trento, Italy) & Eugenio Montefusco (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), “Polycrises and Inequalities: an Interpretative Model”
Renata Sliwa* (University of the National Education Commission, Poland),“Economic regulation and economic performance”
Katarzyna Smolny* (Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland), Małgorzta Gałecka (Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Polska) & Łukasz Brzezicki (Ustka City Hall, Polska) “The Efficiency of Urban Community Cultural Centres in Poland: A DEA-Based Analysis”
Simon Sun* (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law, Taiwan) & Jaime Carini* (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), “The Openness of AI Models: A Bloomington School of Political Economy Perspective”
Simon Sun* (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law, Taiwan), Jaime Carini* (Indiana University Bloomington,USA), “The Openness of AI Models: A Bloomington School of Political Economy Perspective”
T
Sunil Tankha* (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), “Baking Rules into Code: The Sovereign Sandbox and the Rise of Architecture-as-Governance”
Kirti Tater* (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India) & Rajat Kathuria (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India), “The Indian Model of Regulatory Governance: Between Autonomy and Oversight”
William Enrique Echeverría Tigse (University of Coimbra, Portugal), “Financialised Technological Development in the Downturn Phase of the Long Wave: Rethinking Economic Governance”
Chang-hsien (Robert) Tsai* (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Luke Hung-Yu Chuang (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), “When the Brussels Effect Meets the Transplant Effect: Institutional Co-Evolution and Regulatory Diffusion in Corporate Sustainability Governance”
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Faruk Ulgen* (Université Grenoble Alpes, France), “Polycentric Regulation to Prevent Financial Markets from Losing the Eco-Transition Game”
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Massimiliano Vatiero* (University of Milan, Italy) “Is the Hierarchical Nature of the Firm Repugnant?”
Massimiliano Vatiero* (University of Milan, Italy), Elisa Flori* (University of Trento, Italy) & Sandra Paterlini (University of Trento, Italy) “Legal Origins and Firm ESG Practices”
Vincenzina Vitale* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Mauro Costantini* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Pierpaolo D’Urso (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Anna Maria Paola Toti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), “A Dynamic Bayesian Network to Model and Predict Changes in Democratic Institutions”
Dmitry D. Volkov* (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations, France), “A Fractured Quest for Digital Sovereignty: Institutional Trajectories and Structural Dependencies in the Russian IT Sector before February 2022”
Jacopo Volpi* (University of Parma, Italy), “Legal Normativity, AI Technologies, and Imagination: Preserving the Historical-Cultural Dimension”
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Piotr Waląg* (University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland) & Renata Śliwa (University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, Polska) “A Global Uniform Carbon Tax and the Institutional Foundations of Structural Convergence”
Friederike Wall* (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), “When Reciprocity of Trust Backfires: An Agent-based Computational Study of Incomplete Contracts in Organizations”
Y
Ho-Don Yan* (Feng Chia University, Taiwan), Liang-Chih Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), “Policy Entrepreneurship and the Formation of Taiwan’s National Face Mask Team in Response to COVID-19”
Karina Arias Yurisch (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile), Karina Retamal-Soto* (Universidad de Chile, Chile) & Camila Ramos Fuenzalida (University of Birmingham, UK), “Analyzing Mandated Collaboration within Metropolitan Governance: A Case of the Pollution Plan in Concepción, Chile”
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Andrzej Żurawski* (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland), “Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater: Institutional Underpinnings and Consequences of the Ban on School Homework in Poland.”
