Understanding Institutional Dynamics: The Emergence, Persistence, and Change of Institutions in Fisheries in Spermonde Archipelago, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

This study aimed at compiling the prevalent institutions in capture fisheries in Spermonde Archipelago, and analyzing how these institutions emerge, persist, and change from time to time. This qualitative research employed common qualitative data collection method complemented by some data collection methods from participatory approach. Institutions managing capture fisheries in this region consisted of conventions, norms, and rules. Each stemmed from a different strand of cognitive, normative, and regulative structures. They did not emerge within the same time. Each of these components has emerged following the development of capture fisheries. Such a development resulted from sequence of social, economic, and political upheavals at local, national, and international levels. Institutional dynamics have occurred in terms of temporal, spatial, situational attributes, and with regard to functions and structures. To explain how institutions emerge, persist, and change, it matters to conceive institutions either as cognitive, normative, or regulative structures.