configuration

Configurations are stable patterns of recurrent >actions in >networks between different actors, which are perceived to be similar by the actors involved. For example, the middleman in a triangular transaction is a typical configuration in trade. There are many permutations of configurations and knowledge about configurations, which are called meta-configurations. Classes of related configurations are >structures.

A typical way to analyze configurations in EE is the application of game theory, with the >game describing the configuration and the related >language game the knowledge about that configuration. In institutional economics, configurations underly >transaction cost analysis.

Configurations become >institutions if they are linked with cognitive and emotional processes that imply the replication and transfer of the configurations in otehr network contexts with other actors involved.

Basic References
The term "configuration" is borrowed from sociology where it was coined by Norbert Elias

Semantic Field
network
structure
configuration   game