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Academy of Management Journal, 2016
Time is inherently present in empirical research on institutional change—most studies sequence actions and events across stages of development, over time.
Gustafsson, Robin, Granqvist, Nina
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Time is inherently present in empirical research on institutional change—most studies sequence actions and events across stages of development, over time.
Gustafsson, Robin, Granqvist, Nina
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2009
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 ...
Lawrence, Thomas +2 more
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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 ...
Lawrence, Thomas +2 more
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Institutional Void to Institutional Work
Journal of Business, Ethics and Society, 2023This article presents a longitudinal view on the development of digital finance in India, tracing the growth of digital finance in India from the 1950s to 2022. It discusses various legislations, litigations and civil society activism towards the initialization of digital finance in India.
Agrawal, Anirudh +2 more
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Journal of Management Inquiry, 2010
In this article, we argue that the flowering conversation under the label of “institutional work” can be productively enriched by segregating the notions of “institutions” and “work, and by engaging more fully with both micro- and macro-sociological contributions of the “old institutionalism.” We illustrate the value of these extensions by discussing ...
William Kaghan, Michael Lounsbury
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In this article, we argue that the flowering conversation under the label of “institutional work” can be productively enriched by segregating the notions of “institutions” and “work, and by engaging more fully with both micro- and macro-sociological contributions of the “old institutionalism.” We illustrate the value of these extensions by discussing ...
William Kaghan, Michael Lounsbury
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2019
Institutional work involves actors purposefully engaging with their institutional contexts in order to create, modify, or disrupt institutions. In this chapter, we review the history of institutions as social-symbolic objects. We then conceptualize institutional work as a form of social-symbolic work, focusing on identifying the key dimensions of ...
Thomas B. Lawrence, Nelson Phillips
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Institutional work involves actors purposefully engaging with their institutional contexts in order to create, modify, or disrupt institutions. In this chapter, we review the history of institutions as social-symbolic objects. We then conceptualize institutional work as a form of social-symbolic work, focusing on identifying the key dimensions of ...
Thomas B. Lawrence, Nelson Phillips
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Institutional entrepreneurship as emancipating institutional work
Journal of Management History, 2014Purpose– The aim of this paper is to propose an action-interaction-process framework to extend research on institutional entrepreneurship. The framework examines an actor's characteristics, interactions in an institutional context, and the process by which entrepreneurial action is accomplished.Design/methodology/approach– Via a sociohistorical ...
Jack Smothers +3 more
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Institutional Work: Refocusing Institutional Studies of Organization
Journal of Management Inquiry, 2010In this paper, we discuss an alternative focus for institutional studies of organization - the study of institutional work. Research on institutional work examines the practices of individual and collective actors aimed at creating, maintaining, and disrupting institutions.
Lawrence, Thomas B. +2 more
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Problematizing Actors and Institutions in Institutional Work
Journal of Management Inquiry, 2010The growing popularity of institutional work suggests a broad agentic turn in institutional approaches to organizational studies. We briefly describe the contribution of the evolving institutional-work research agenda. Then, we identify two problematic areas in this line of research: the privileged causal status of “actors” and the under-theorized ...
Hokyu Hwang, Jeannette A. Colyvas
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2019
In this chapter Stephen Barley discusses his path to becoming an institutionalist through his immersion in the research of the Chicago School sociology of the 1950s and 1960s, especially Everett C. Hughes and Anselm Strauss. His claim is that the Chicago School sociologists were wrestling with the same problem that currently preoccupies many ...
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In this chapter Stephen Barley discusses his path to becoming an institutionalist through his immersion in the research of the Chicago School sociology of the 1950s and 1960s, especially Everett C. Hughes and Anselm Strauss. His claim is that the Chicago School sociologists were wrestling with the same problem that currently preoccupies many ...
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Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012
To date, there has been little conversation between the emerging research stream of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) and established research on institutional work and agency. Synthesizing these two domains yields a conceptualization of positive institutional work that differs markedly from current portraits of institutional work in the ...
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To date, there has been little conversation between the emerging research stream of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) and established research on institutional work and agency. Synthesizing these two domains yields a conceptualization of positive institutional work that differs markedly from current portraits of institutional work in the ...
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