Introduction : the new institutionalism in strategic management / Paul Ingram, Brian S. Silverman -- The evolution of university patenting and licensing procedures : an empirical study of institutional change / Bhaven N. Sampat, Richard R. Nelson -- Competition, contingency, and the external structure of markets / Ronald S. Burt, Miguel Guilarte, Holly J. Raider, Yuki Yasuda -- Institutional change in real-time : the development of employee stock options for German venture capital / Jonathan Jaffee, John Freeman -- Institutional barriers to electronic commerce : an historical perspective / Karen Clayand, Robert P. Strauss -- Informal and formal organization in new institutional economics / Todd R. Zenger, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Laura Poppo -- Tests tell : constitutive legitimacy and consumer acceptance of the automobile : 1895-1912 / Hayagreeva Rao -- Policy and process : a game-theoretic framework for the design of non-market strategy / Guy L.F. Holburn, Richard G. Vanden Bergh -- Learning about the institutional environment / Witold J. Henisz, Andrew Delios -- Institutions and the vicious circle of distrust in the Russian household deposit market, 1992-1999 / Andrew Spicer, William Pyle -- Managerial decision making in non-market environments : a survey experiment / John M. de Figueiredo, Rui J.P. de Figueiredo -- Pretty pictures and ugly scenes : political and technological maneuvers in high definition television / Glen Dowell, Anand Swaminathan, James Wade.

These papers explore the contemporary strategic management field. They examine how firms behave, why they are different, what limits their scope and what determines success and failure in international competition.