Challenges for Institutional Theory
Challenges for Institutional Theory
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制度理论面临的挑战
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2010
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R. Suddaby
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R. Suddaby
本文对新制度主义在组织研究中的应用进行了批判性总结。虽然制度主义已经成功地成为研究宏观组织现象的主导理论，但存在一种危险，即该理论已经远远超出了其核心目的——理解组织结构和过程如何在其技术目标之外获得意义和连续性。我讨论了这种转移的一些可能原因，并确定了四个新兴的研究线索，这些研究线索具有将制度理论带回其核心假设和目标的强大潜力；类别、语言、作品和美学。
This essay offers a critical summation of the use of neo-institutionalism to study organizations. While institutionalism has succeeded in becoming the dominant theory to study macro-organizational phenomena, there is a danger that the theory has been stretched far beyond its core purpose—to understand how organizational structures and processes acquire meaning and continuity beyond their technical goals. I discuss some possible reasons for this displacement and identify four nascent threads of research that hold strong potential for bringing institutional theory back to its core assumptions and objectives; categories, language, work, and aesthetics.