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Sociology and the New Institutionalism
2015In sociology, new institutionalists led the revival in interest in institutions in organizational theory and economic sociology by shifting the focus of causal reasoning from agent-centric studies of economic and organizational actors to the relationship connecting the firm with its institutional environment.
Nee, Victor, Opper, Sonja
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Abstract The three traditional neo-institutionalisms—rational choice, historical, sociological—differ as much from one another as they do from discursive institutionalism. The differences are apparent in their objects and logics of explanation, in their definitions of actors and institutions, in their explanations of and approaches to
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The Old Institutionalism and the New
Polity, 2008When scholars of the United States talk about "the state as a conceptual variable," or "bringing the state back in," it is not always clear what is being prescribed, or even what the object of study is. To some extent, this dissonance is the result of three separate arguments, in each of which it is important to define what the state is and does, but ...
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Agency in New Institutionalism
2016This chapter deals with agency in new institutionalism, often argued to be sparsely theorized. A critical assessment is made of the micro-level theorizing of the dominant versions of new institutionalism. After that we present and assess the argument of Vivienne Lowndes and Mark Roberts (2013: Why institutions matter: The new institutionalism in ...
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The relevance of neo-institutionalism for organizational change
Cogent Social Sciences, 2023Kwangseon Hwang
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Institutionalizing New Ideas Through Visualization
2014How do visualization and visual forms of communication influence the process of transforming a novel idea into established organizational practice? In this paper, we build theory with regard to the role of visuals in manifesting and giving form to an innovative idea as it proceeds through various stages of institutionalization.
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Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse
Annual Review of Political Science, 2008Vivien A Schmidt
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