Purpose: An Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) is a collaborative governance (CG) arrangement which brings together several actors in the agriculture sector forming an innovation platform (IP). This study presents findings of CG dynamics obtained from an IP. Design/Methodology/Approach: A qualitative study used focus group discussions, key inform...
Abstract Changes in societal logics often leave firms’ policies and practices out of step. Yet when firms introduce a change that brings in a new societal logic, employees may resist, even though they personally value the change, because the incoming logic conflicts with existing organizational logics. How can change agents handle logic-based resis...
Published in Environmental Management
This paper builds on the assumption that an effective approach to support the sustainability of natural resource management initiatives is institutional “bricolage.” We argue that participatory planning processes can foster institutional bricolage by encouraging stakeholders to make their own arrangements based on the hybridization of old and new i...
This study explores the effect of institutional origin ('nurture') and economic context ('nature') on the financial resource endowment and subsequent early employment growth of research-based spin-offs (RBSOs). The nurture dimensions capture the relationship between the parent research institution and the RBSO during the start-up phase: the type of...
The reform of the sugar protocol between the European Union (EU) and the African Caribbean andPacific (ACP) countries affected the Mauritian agricultural sector tremendously: it spelt a decrease of 36 per centin the price of sugar for producers. In reaction, the Mauritian sugar industry has undertaken a massivediversification within sugar: producti...
In transition countries informal institutions play a major role and often interfere with new formal institutions leading to large discrepancies between rules on paper and rules in use. We develop an agent-based model to explore the interaction between formal and informal rules and its effect on the performance of the formal institutions, based on t...
Cet article s’intéresse aux processus par lesquels le Développement Durable, en tant qu’ensemble de normes prescriptives à portée globale, est l’objet d’une construction normative et d’une mise en forme institutionnelle dans le cadre de politiques rurales du Mexique et du Brésil. Nous abordons cette question sous l’angle des trajectoires de changem...
We carry out a comparative study of four farm sectors in Costa Rica, based on a dynamic analysis of behaviors regarding institutional changes occurring during the liberalization process. We highlight organizations’ capacities to adapt and contribute to institutional changes by implementing economical activities and participating to policy making pr...
Mayotte, île française de l’océan Indien, est engagée dans un processus de transition institutionnelle, économique et sociale majeure pour obtenir le statut de département en 2010. L’alignement sur la métropole s’accompagne de nouvelles opportunités de revenus et d’un accès facilité aux subventions agricoles, mais induit également une réforme du sy...
