ISBN:
9780511596605
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (ix, 324 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.01
Keywords:
Social institutions
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Organizational sociology
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Organisationssoziologie
;
Institution
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Institution
;
Organisationssoziologie
Abstract:
The 'institutional' approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life - such as marriage and bureaucracy - act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the fields in which they operate, providing strong accounts of the processes through which institutions govern action. In contrast, the study of institutional work reorients these traditional concerns, shifting the focus to understanding how action affects institutions. This book sets a research agenda within the field of institutional work by analyzing the ways in which individuals, groups, and organizations work to create, maintain, and disrupt the institutions that structure their lives. Through a series of essays and case studies, it explores the conceptual core of institutional work, identifies institutional work strategies, provides exemplars for future empirical research, and embeds the concept within broader sociological debates and ideas
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: theorizing and studying institutional work / Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby, Bernard Leca -- Institutional work and the paradox of embedded agency / Julie Battilana, Thomas D'Aunno -- Leadership as institutional work: a bridge to the other side / Matthew S. Kraatz -- Bringing change into the lives of the poor: entrepreneurship outside traditional boundaries / Ignasi Marti, Johanna Mair -- Institutional work as the creative embrace of contradiction / Timothy J. Hargrave, Andrew H. Van de Ven -- Building the iron cage: institutional creation work in the context of competing proto-institutions / Charlene Zietsma, Brent McKnight -- Scandinavian institutionalism - a case of institutional work / Eva Boxenbaum, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen -- Institutional maintenance as narrative acts / Tammar B. Zilber -- Maintaining an institution in a contested organizational field: the work of the AACSB and its constituents / Christine Quinn Trank, Marvin Washington -- Institutional "dirty" work: preserving institutions through strategic decoupling / Paul M. Hirsch, Y. Sekou Bermiss -- Doing which work? A practice approach to institutional pluralism / Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Matthiesen, Andrew H. Van de Ven
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511596605
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511596605
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511596605
