ThinkBox Prospects for institutional research

1. The need for institutional research Everyone agrees that technology is important for economic development. But so too are organisations and other institutions. Douglass North (1971, p. 120) wrote: The development of more efficient economic organisation is surely as important a part of the growth of the Western World as is the development of technology, and it is time it received equal attention. The few cases of which I am aware that have attempted to measure productivity change attributable to improving economic organisation certainly support this contention.