The article examines the issue of “too many definitions of institution” in neo-institutional literature, which is important but has been neglected by other scholars. It reviews the existing neo-institutionalist literature to sort out various kinds...
The article examines the issue of “too many definitions of institution” in neo-institutional literature, which is important but has been neglected by other scholars. It reviews the existing neo-institutionalist literature to sort out various kinds of definitions of institution, and then addresses the analytical problems it causes in undertaking empirical research on the basis of neo-institutional perspective.
The purpose of this paper, by doing this, is to remind the readers of the potential of neo-institutional approach for empirical research.