... , p. 179). I use a framework developed in 2006 by Boltanski and Thévenot (B&T) to assess the cognitive aspects of decision-making. I present a case study on the Dutch cooperative Rabobank to illustrate the role of normative notions in institutional change and the way in which normative debates...

... agency”, an approach that may afford management historians a more thorough account of how institutions are formed and change over time. North has always maintained that institutional change is the outcome of deliberate or intentional choices made by actors. However, and unlike his earlier work which...