What is an institution?

By John R. Searle. Journal of Institutional Economics, 2005

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Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Political Economy, and Adaptation (2009, background): “The role of language, for instance, which can be regarded as the most fundamental social institution, serves to exemplify broader features of institutions (Dolfsma, Finch, and McMaster 2007; Searle 2005).”
Positive organizational psychology, behavior, and scholarship: A review of the emerging literature and evidence base (2010, background): “Based on Searle (2005), Peterson (2006), and the current literature on positive institutions, we consider positive organizations as a subset of positive institutions.”
Why Butterflies Don’t Leave: Locational Behavior of Entrepreneurial Firms (2007, background): “Although firms are an institutional reality, they are not necessarily a physical reality (Searle 2005, 15–16).”
Institutions as Knowledge Capital: Ludwig M. Lachmann’s Interpretative Institutionalism (2006, background): “For our purposes we need not enter the ontology of institutions, but for an elaboration, see Searle (2005) and Lewis and Runde (2006, in press). concerns the ability of an institution to elicit some generally-accepted rule following behaviour.”
Alone Together (2015, background): “Here is the original sentence from Searle: “When Lionel Robbins . . . tells us that ‘Economics is a study of the disposal of scarce commodities,’ he takes for granted a huge, invisible institutional ontology” (Searle 2005, 1).”
Beyond Measuring the Human Resources Management-Organizational Performance Link: Applying Critical Realist Meta-Theory (2006, background): “4 For an introduction to critical realism, see Ackroyd and Fleetwood (2000); Archer et al. (1998); Carter and New (2004); Danermark et al. (1997); Fleetwood and Ackroyd (2004); Lawson (1997, 2003); Reed (2001); and Sayer (1994, 2000).”
Cultural-economy and cities (2007, background): “In institutional economics, the gesture to culture extends to an attempt to differentiate between cultural and non-cultural institutions in the formation and regulation of economic activity, but stops short of considering all institutions – from habits and routines and norms and rules, to firms and ”
Good in a crisis: the ontological institutionalism of social constructivism (2016, background): “…of such an ontology, The Social Construction of Reality (1966) and its more recent restatement and development by the analytical philosopher John R. Searle (1995, 2005, 2010) that I begin.1 In so doing and in keeping with the emphasis in both on ontology, it is perhaps useful to begin with Berger…”