Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis 
<P></P>by Masahiko Aoki 
<P></P>Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 2001. 
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<P></P>Contents 
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<P></P>Acknowledgments ix 
<P></P>1 What Are Institutions? How Should We Approach Them? 1 
<P></P>1.1 Three Views of Institutions in a Game-Theoretic Perspective 4 
<P></P>1.2 Aspects of Institutions: Shared Beliefs, Summary Representations of Equilibrium, and Endogenous Rules of the Game 10 
<P></P>1.3 Organization of the Book 21 
<P></P>I PROTO-INSTITUTIONS: INTRODUCING BASIC TYPES 31 
<P></P>2 Customary Property Rights and Community Norms 35 
<P></P>2.1 Customary Property Rights as a Self-organizing System 35 
<P></P>2.2 Community Norms as a Self-enforcing Solution to the Commons Problem 43 
<P></P>Appendix: History versus Ecology as a Determinant of a Norm: The Case of Yi Korea 55 
<P></P>3 The Private-Ordered Governance of Trade, Contracts, and Markets 59 
<P></P>3.1 Traders’ Norms 62 
<P></P>3.2 Cultural Beliefs and Self-enforcing Employment Contracts 68 
<P></P>3.3 Private Third-Party Governance: The Law Merchant 73 
<P></P>3.4 Moral Codes 76 
<P></P>3.5 Overall Market Governance Arrangements 78 
<P></P>Appendix: Money as an Evolutive Convention 91 
<P></P>4 Organizational Architecture and Governance 95 
<P></P>4.1 Organizational Building Blocks: Hierarchical Decomposition, Information Assimilation, and Encapsulation 98 
<P></P>4.2 Types of Organizational Architecture 106 
<P></P>4.3 Governance of Organizational Architecture: A Preliminary Discussion 118 
<P></P>5 The Co-evolution of Organizational Conventions and Human Asset Types 129 
<P></P>5.1 Types of Mental Programs: Individuated versus Context-Oriented Human Assets 131 
<P></P>5.2 The Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizational Conventions 135 
<P></P>5.3 The Interactions of Organizational Fields and Gains from Diversity 140 
<P></P>5.4 The Relevance and Limits of the Evolutionary Game Model 147 
<P></P>6 States as Stable Equilibria in the Polity Domain 151 
<P></P>6.1 Three Prototypes of the State 153 
<P></P>6.2 Various Forms of the Democratic and Collusive States 160 
<P></P>II A GAME-THEORETIC FRAMEWORK FOR INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS 181 
<P></P>7 A Game-Theoretic Concept of Institutions 185 
<P></P>7.1 Exogenous Rules of the Game and Endogenous Action-Choice Rules 186 
<P></P>7.2 The Institution as a Summary Representation of an Equilibrium Path 197 
<P></P>7.3 Feedback Loops of Institutionalization 202 
<P></P>8 The Synchronic Structure of Institutional Linkage 207 
<P></P>8.1 Social Embeddedness 208 
<P></P>8.2 Linked Games and Institutionalized Linkages 213 
<P></P>8.3 Institutional Complementarity 225 
<P></P>9 Subjective Game Models and the Mechanism of Institutional Change 231 
<P></P>9.1 Why Are Overall Institutional Arrangements Enduring? 233 
<P></P>9.2 Subjective Game Models and General Cognitive Equilibrium 235 
<P></P>9.3 The Mechanism of Institutional Change: The Cognitive Aspect 239 
<P></P>10 Diachronic Linkages of Institutions 245 
<P></P>10.1 Overlapping Social Embeddedness 247 
<P></P>10.2 The Reconfiguration of Bundling 260 
<P></P>10.3 Diachronic Institutional Complementarity 267 
<P></P>III AN ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY 275 
<P></P>11 Comparative Corporate Governance 279 
<P></P>11.1 Governance of the Functional Hierarchy 282 
<P></P>11.2 Codetermination in the Participatory Hierarchy 287 
<P></P>11.3 Relational-Contingent Governance of the Horizontal Hierarchy 291 
<P></P>12 Types of Relational Financing and the Value of Tacit Knowledge 307 
<P></P>12.1 A Generic Definition of Relational Financing and Its Knowledge-Based Taxonomy 310 
<P></P>12.2 The Institutional Viability of Relational Financing 314 
<P></P>13 Institutional Complementarities, Co-emergence, and Crisis: The Case of the Japanese Main Bank System 329 
<P></P>13.1 The Main Bank Institution as a System of Shared Beliefs 331 
<P></P>13.2 Institutional Emergence: Unintended Fits 333 
<P></P>13.3 Endogenous Inertia, Misfits with Changing Environments, and a Crisis of Shared Beliefs 340 
<P></P>14 Institutional Innovation of the Silicon Valley Model in the Product System Development 347 
<P></P>14.1 Information-Systemic Architecture of the Silicon Valley Model 349 
<P></P>14.2 The VC Governance of Innovation by Tournament 360 
<P></P>14.3 Norms and Values in the Silicon Valley Model 366 
<P></P>Appendix: The Stylized Factual Background for Modeling 371 
<P></P>15 Epilogue: Why Does Institutional Diversity Continue to Evolve? 377 
<P></P>15.1 Some Stylized Models of Overall Institutional Arrangements 377 
<P></P>15.2 Self-organizing Diversity in the Global Institutional Arrangement 386 
<P></P>Notes 395 
<P></P>References 433 
<P></P>Index 457 
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