Theorizing materialism through the Institutional Analysis and Development framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Kilbourne ◽  
Michael J. Dorsch ◽  
Anastasia Thyroff
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Belief Structures ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Social Paradigm ◽  
Dominant Social Paradigm

Materialism in Western societies has been examined at both individual and cultural levels. However, the underlying institutions that engender and perpetuate materialism as an orientation toward consumption are left unexamined. Therefore, the overall purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between institutions constituting the dominant social paradigm (DSP) (deep-rooted belief structures and practices) of societies and materialism. The model proposed to carry this out is the Institutional Analysis and Development framework. This article contributes to marketing theory by developing a conceptual model that explains and offers transformative implications pertaining to the relationship between materialism and the institutional elements of the DSP of Western industrial societies.

scholarly journals Enabling Game-Theoretical Analysis of Social Rules

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nieves Montes ◽  
Nardine Osman ◽  
Carles Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Multiagent Systems ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Agent Interactions ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Agent Interaction ◽  
Normative Multiagent Systems ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
The Relationship

In the field of normative multiagent systems, the relationship between a game structure and its underpinning agent interaction rules is hardly ever addressed in a systematic manner. In this work, we introduce the Action Situation Language (ASL), inspired by Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework, to bridge the gap between games and rules. The ASL provides a syntax for the description of agent interactions, and is complemented by an engine that automatically provides semantics for them as extensive-form games. The resulting games can then be analysed using standard game-theoretical solution concepts, hence allowing any community of agents to automatically perform what-if analysis of potential new interaction rules.

Capturing Structural and Functional Diversity Through Institutional Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Feiock ◽  
Christopher M. Weible ◽  
David P. Carter ◽  
Cali Curley ◽  
Aaron Deslatte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Institutional Diversity ◽  
Institutional Rules ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
The Relationship

City charters affect the governance of municipal systems in complex ways. Current descriptions and typologies developed to study city charter structures simplify the diverse types and configurations of institutional rules underlying charter designs. This research note demonstrates a more detailed approach for studying the design of city charters using analytical methods based on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework. This approach is illustrated with a pilot study of institutional rules in municipal charters that define the roles and duties of mayors. The findings reveal that city charters exhibit great institutional diversity, particularly within strong mayor cities. We conclude with a research agenda that could generate a more precise and rigorous understanding of the relationship between the different configurations of institutions of city charters and the politics, governance, and performance of municipalities.

scholarly journals Laws, norms, and the Institutional Analysis and Development framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL H. COLE
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
Type 3 ◽  
Working Rules

AbstractElinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework has been described as ‘one of the most developed and sophisticated attempts to use institutional and stakeholder assessment in order to link theory and practice, analysis and policy’. But not all elements in the framework are sufficiently well developed. This paper focuses on one such element: the ‘rules-in-use’ (a.k.a. ‘rules’ or ‘working rules’). Specifically, it begins a long-overdue conversation about relations between formal legal rules and ‘working rules’ by offering a tentative and very simple typology of relations. Type 1: Some formal legal rules equal or approximate the working rules; Type 2: Some legal rules plus (or emended by) widely held social norms equal or approximate the working rules; and Type 3: Some legal rules bear no evident relation to the working rules. Several examples, including some previously used by Ostrom, are provided to illustrate each of the three types, which can be conceived of as nodes or ranges along a continuum. The paper concludes with a call for empirical research, especially case studies and meta-analyses, to determine the relevant scope of each of these types of relations, and to provide data for furthering our understanding of how different types of rules, from various sources, function (or not) as institutions.

scholarly journals Complementing the Dominant Social Paradigm with Sustainability

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna F. Gollnhofer ◽  
John W. Schouten
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Basic Belief ◽  
Belief Structures ◽  
Retail Food ◽  
Social Paradigm ◽  
Dominant Social Paradigm

The dominant social paradigm (DSP) defines the basic belief structures and practices of marketplace actors and is manifested in existing exchange structures. Sustainability – a so-called megatrend – challenges the DSP by questioning its underlying assumptions, resulting in tensions or conflicts for different marketplace actors. This study examines a specific case of an alternative market arrangement that bridges tensions between the DSP and environmental concerns. Ethnography in the context of retail food waste disposition reveals tensions experienced by several marketplace actors – namely consumers, retail firms and regulators – and investigates an alternative market arrangement that alleviates those tensions by connecting the actors and their practices in a creative new way. We identify complementarity as the underlying mechanism of connection and resolution. Compared to previously identified alternative market arrangements that are either oppositional or parallel to the DSP, complementarity opens another path toward greater environmental sustainability through market-level solutions.

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