Factors affecting farmers' networking decisions

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Pascucci
Keyword(s):  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Driving Factors ◽  
Multivariate Probit ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Marketing Cooperatives

This paper analyses farmers' decisions to carry out transactions by using three different types of networks: input supply cooperatives, processing and/or marketing cooperatives, and producers associations. We use arguments from economic sociology and new institutional economics to define the main factors affecting farmers' networking decisions, namely relational, asset and location specificity. We applied a multivariate probit (MVP) model to a sample of 15,368 Italian farmers recorded in the 2006 FADN database in order to analyse the simultaneousness of networking decisions and the main driving factors involved. Our results show that farmers are more likely to join different network types simultaneously.

scholarly journals Institutional approach to assessing the transition to a circular economy: the case of the Kaliningrad region

Baltic Region ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-47
Author(s):  
Shastitko Andrey E. ◽  
Karina A. Ionkina ◽  
Olga A. Markova ◽  
Anton N. Morozov
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Collective Action Problem ◽  
Incentive Schemes ◽  
Social Resistance ◽  
Msw Management ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Kaliningrad Region ◽  
Voluntary Basis

The article discusses possible reasons for the failure of Russia’s waste management industry reform and highlights the ownership blurring as a factor that may hinder the transition to a circular economy, which has been proposed as one of the outcomes of the reform. This study aims to address possible obstacles to transitioning to a circular economy in the Kaliningrad region. Methodologically, the study uses instruments of new institutional economics: by comparing discrete institutional alternatives for municipal solid waste (MSW) management, the authors propose incentive schemes that will likely stimulate the transition to a circular economy in the region. It is shown that, in Russia, the identification of the holder of the property right to waste is complicated. This can be a hindrance to effective MSW management. Moreover, objects handled by MSW management services may fall into different types, but at the same time, it is possible to transfer objects from one type to another. One of the ways to improve the exclusion of services of MSW utilization is the introduction of incentive tariffs. Low-rise housing in the Kaliningrad region makes it an ideal region for the introduction of such a scheme. When calculating the unsorted waste transport fee, a multiplier can be used to reduce the payment for waste-separating households. This can serve as an additional incentive for overcoming collective action problem in MSW collecting and sorting. To prevent social resistance to such a policy, incentive schemes should be implemented on a voluntary basis.

scholarly journals What Factors Constitute Structures of Clustering Creative Industries? Incorporating New Institutional Economics and New Economic Sociology into A Conceptual Framework

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Poppy Ismalina
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives

Creative industries tend to cluster in specific places and the reasons for this phenomenon can be a multiplicity of elements linked mainly to culture, creativity, innovation and local development. In the international literature, it is pretty well recognized that creativity is frequently characterized by the agglomeration of firms so that creative industries are not homogeneously distributed across the territory but they are concentrated in the space. Three theories are becoming the dominant theoretical perspectives in agglomeration economies theory and they are increasingly being applied in industrial clusters analysis to study the effect of clustering industries. The theories are Marshall’s theoretical principles of localization economies, Schmitz’s collective efficiency and Porter’s five-diamond approach. However, those have adequately theorized neither the institutionalization process through which change takes place nor the socio-economic context of the institutional formations of clustering creative industries. This text begins by reviewing three main theories to more fully articulate institutionalization processes of an economic institution. Specifically, this paper incorporates new institutional economics (NIE) and new economic sociology (NES) to explain the processes associated with creating institutional practices within clustering creative industries. Both streams of institutional theory constitute that economic organizations are socially constructed. Next, this text proposes the framework that depicts the socio-economic context better and more directly addresses the dynamics of enacting, embedding and changing organizational features and processes within clustering creative industries. Some pertinent definitions are offered to be used in a conceptual framework of research about how economic institutions like clustering creative industries constitute their structures.    

Constitutional Traditions, Institutions, Behavioral Prerequisites and Well-being of Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-49
Author(s):  
Hayk Sargsyan ◽  
Ruben Gevorgyan
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Econometric Analysis ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Constitutional Culture ◽  
Main Factors

Well-being of countries depend on several factors. According to new institutional economics one of the main factors of national well-being is the level of institutional development. Drawing on econometric analysis, we prove this hypothesis and show that such indicators as constitutional culture, behavioral prerequisites and perception of institutions are indispensable for the well-being of a country. The paper presents various approaches to "measuring" these indicators and issues related to this.

Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in analyzing institutions

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 798-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Zafirovski
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Interdisciplinary Treatment ◽  
Historical School ◽  
Classical Economic ◽  
Further Development

The rediscovery and analytical reconstitution are present tendencies in much of social science, especially economics and sociology. The emergence and expansion of the so‐called new institutional economics exemplify these tendencies as do attempts at revival and rehabilitation of the old institutional economics. Analogous tendencies have been manifested in sociology by the further development of economic sociology, especially by various reformulations of its classical premise of institutional structuration and embeddedness of economic behavior. Nevertheless, much of mainstream economics tends to neglect or play down certain salient divergences between the latter's neoclassical or orthodox institutionalism, and heterodox or critical institutionalism advanced by the old institutional economics as well as by economic sociology. Identifies and elaborates such divergences between these seemingly homologous varieties of institutionalism. Since institutionalist varieties and tendencies in both economics and sociology are considered, represents a contribution to an interdisciplinary treatment of social institutions, a treatment originally proposed by the old institutional economics of Veblen et al., the German historical school as well as by Weberian‐Durkheimian classical economic sociology.

scholarly journals Institutional Theory and Management Accounting Research

2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (10) ◽  
pp. 401-409
Author(s):  
Robert W. Scapens
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Important Impact ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Internal Pressures ◽  
And Control

This article discusses the use of institutional theory in management accounting research. Three different types of institutional theory are described and their use in studying management accounting change is explained: new institutional economics (NIE), new institutional sociology (NIS) and old institutional economics (OIE). Whereas NIE and NIS study how external economic and institutional (i.e., social and political) pressures influence the way organisations are structured and the nature of their management accounting and control practices, OIE focuses on the institutions (ways of thinking) within organisations and the internal pressures and constraints that shape management accounting practices. It is recognised that management accounting change is a complex and multi-dimensional process, and it is shown that institutional theory can highlight the different aspects of the ‘mish-mash’ of inter-related influences. Furthermore, it is explained how taken-for-granted ways of thinking within an organisation can have a direct and important impact on the success (or failure) of a programme of management accounting change.

scholarly journals Space and time differentiation of snow cover in the Kasmala river basin, Altai krai

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-369
Author(s):  
D. V. Chernykh ◽  
D. V. Zolotov ◽  
D. K. Pershin ◽  
R. Yu. Biryukov
Keyword(s):  
Snow Cover ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Snow Accumulation ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Main Factors

Results of the 2011–2014 snow-course survey in the Kasmaly River basin, which is typical of the southern forest-steppe in Altai Territory, Russia, were analyzed. The interannual differential snow cover, major properties, and main factors affecting the amount of snow accumulation within different types of geological systems in the basin were examined.

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