World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research

Announcing a new global network:

World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research

Would you like to be a Founding Member of WINIR?

WINIR upholds that institutions are key factors in explaining social evolution and economic performance. Not confined to any one analytical approach or academic subject, WINIR brings together researchers in all disciplines who are devoted to the study of the nature, function, evolution, and impact of the institutions and organizations of economic and social life. WINIR will organise conferences, workshops, and conference sessions, around the world.

The following leading pioneers of institutional research are Honorary Presidents of WINIR:

Daron Acemoglu	Howard Aldrich	Masahiko Aoki	Julia Black
Peter Boettke	Paul DiMaggio	Peter Evans	Neil Fligstein
Margaret Gilbert	Avner Greif	Peter Hall	Henry Hansmann
Timur Kuran	Richard Langlois	Richard Lipsey	Claude Ménard
Richard Nelson	Douglass North*	John Nye	Johan P. Olsen
Walter Powell	James Robinson	Dani Rodrik	Malcolm Rutherford
W. Richard Scott	John Searle	Mary Shirley	David Soskice
Wolfgang Streeck	Robert Sugden	Kathleen Thelen	Viktor Vanberg

Ronald Coase* also agreed to be a WINIR Honorary President. He passed away in September 2013.

(* Nobel Laureates)

WINIR is currently managed by a Council of eight members:

Katharina Pistor                   (Columbia Law School, USA)                       – President

Geoffrey Hodgson              (University of Hertfordshire, UK)              – Secretary

Francesca Gagliardi             (University of Hertfordshire, UK)              – Treasurer

David Gindis                          (University of Hertfordshire, UK)              – Publicity Officer

Ana Célia Castro                   (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Kainan Huang                        (Shandong University, China)

Klaus Nielsen                        (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)

Ugo Pagano                           (Univ of Siena, Italy & Central European Univ, Budapest)

WINIR conferences are being planned for 2014 in the UK and 2015 in Rio de Janeiro.

The 2013 membership fees for WINIR are £30 (about €36 or $46) per person.

(£15 for those with annual post-tax personal incomes of £20,000/€24,000/$30,000 or less.) 

If you become a 2013 member you will be entered on the record as a “Founding Member of WINIR”.

To pay membership fees, and for more information, go to      www.winir.org