TY - JOUR
T1 - Institutional Plasticity in Public-private Interactions
T2 - Why Japan's Port Reform Failed
AU - Hatani, Faith
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This study applies the concept of institutional plasticity to analyze institutional change, and investigates why actors are unable to change institutions even when change is apparently necessary. Employing historical institutionalism, the analysis focuses on public-private interactions in the recent port reform in Japan. The study’s findings reveal four limits to institutional plasticity due to the respective roles of key actors – the central government, the local port authority, and business entities – in the process of policy reform. The study suggests that while institutional plasticity may enable variation within an existing developmental trajectory or even creation of an entirely new path, insufficient institutional plasticity constrains the creation of new institutions and inhibits institutional change.
AB - This study applies the concept of institutional plasticity to analyze institutional change, and investigates why actors are unable to change institutions even when change is apparently necessary. Employing historical institutionalism, the analysis focuses on public-private interactions in the recent port reform in Japan. The study’s findings reveal four limits to institutional plasticity due to the respective roles of key actors – the central government, the local port authority, and business entities – in the process of policy reform. The study suggests that while institutional plasticity may enable variation within an existing developmental trajectory or even creation of an entirely new path, insufficient institutional plasticity constrains the creation of new institutions and inhibits institutional change.
KW - Institutional plasticity
KW - Historical institutionalism
KW - Public-private interactions
KW - Port reform
KW - Japan
KW - Institutional plasticity
KW - Historical institutionalism
KW - Public-private interactions
KW - Port reform
KW - Japan
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2016.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2016.07.002
M3 - Journal article
VL - 51
SP - 923
EP - 936
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
SN - 1090-9516
IS - 6
ER -