How institutions learn: a socio-cognitive perspective. From: Journal of Economic Issues | Date: September 1, 1997| Author: Stein, Johan | COPYRIGHT 1997 Association for Evolutionary Economics. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

An analysis of institutions and institutional change has been conducted based on a socio-cognitive framework. This framework posits that institutions are structuration principles of collective belief systems and that the value-infused beliefs of institutions attribute to the structuration properties of various social manifestations. Both structuration principles and properties play significant roles in the human development of knowledge. Another important factor in understanding learning and ...

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