Organizations, Institutions, and Intellectual Norms

Organizations, Institutions, and Intellectual Norms: An Analytical Philosophy View of Institutional Change provides a new perspective on institutional theory by incorporating an analytical philosophy framework.

Alexander Styhre is Chair of Management and Organization, Department of Business Administration, in the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Part I: Propositions Chapter One. Institutions, their micro-foundations, and institutional change Chapter Two. To act for reasons and to have such reasons justified Part II: Empirical substantiation Chapter Three. The justification of antitrust reform Chapter Four. The intellectual norm of fairness and the question of economic inequality Chapter Five. Bankruptcy law and the intellectual norm of truth Chapter Six. Institutions are made, not given: Institutions change if and when intellectual norms are recognized or reformulated