Sven-Erik Sjastrand (b. 1945) received his Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden) in 1973. He has been Professor of Management and Organization Theory at this school since 1978 and Chairman of its Department for Management and Business Administration since 1989. He is a member of several boards, both in research associations and in large Swedish multinationals. Furthermore, he is the national representative and a board member of both the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) and the European Association for Evolutionary and Political Economics (EAEPE). His internationally best-known writings include A Taxonomic Approach to Some Problems of Company Organization (1975), Organizational Myths (1978), The Role Process: Towards an Integrating Device in Organization Theory (1986), The Dual Functions of Organizations (1987), Institutional Economics-An Overview (1989), and The Rationale Behind Irrational Institutions (1992).

• Introduction 1. On Institutional Thought in the Social and Economic Sciences Part 1: Institutional Change: Basic Theory 2. Institutional Change: A Framework of Analysis 3. A Socio-Economic Perspective on Friction 4. Institutions as Infrastructures of Human Interaction 5. Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives Part II: Comparative Analyses of Institutional Structures and Changes 6. Small Firm Networks 7. Strategies of Institutional Change in Central and Eastern European Economies 8. Property Rights and Governance Transformations in Eastern Europe and the United States 9. Institutional Cooperation in Japanese and German Capitalism 10. Japanese Institutions Supporting Innovation 11. Structural Competitiveness and Strategic Capacities: Rethinking the State and International Capital 12. Size, Integration, and Unemployment: The Nordic Countries Facing the European Single Market Part ill: Changing Institutions: Focusing on Experiences in Northern and Eastern Europe 13. The Institutional History of the Danish Polity: From a Market and Mixed Economy to a Negotiated Economy 14. Devolution of the Negotiated Economy? Sweden's 1990 Food Policy Reform 15. Non-Market Governance of Business in a Market-Based Economy: The Case of Norway 16. Evolution of Interest Representation in Poland 17. Transforming a Centrally Planned Economy into a Market Economy: The Case of Czechoslovakia 18. Transition and Conversion in a Small, Open and Formerly Planned Economy: Hungary 19. Psychological Resistance to Market Relations in the Former Soviet Union. Retrospection 20. The Many Faces of Capitalism