Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, and Renate E. Meyer (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 000183922110394
Author(s):  
Robert N. Eberhart
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Institutionalism

scholarly journals Into the Clearing: Back to the future of constitutive institutional analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 263178771989117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lounsbury ◽  
Milo Shaoqing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
World Society ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Organizational Institutionalism ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Do So

In the wake of recent scholarly disquiet regarding organizational institutionalism, we argue for a more focused constitutive approach to institutional analysis that concentrates attention on the socio-cultural sources of actors and their behavior. To do so, we suggest that complementarities between world society institutionalism and the institutional logics perspective provide an opportunity to develop a richer, more critical approach to contemporary transformations in economy and society. Building upon nascent empirical directions in world society scholarship, we argue that bridging these theoretical research programs can seed a generative research agenda on the variegated challenges to the established world society order that underpins the liberal capitalist-democracy model. We argue that this should include research on the multiplicity of logics that undergird liberal as well as illiberal beliefs and practices. Foregrounding issues of power and inequality that are grounded in disparate configurations of logics, we suggest that new analytical tools related to the new structuralism and multimodal analysis can help advance the constitutive institutional project for which we advocate.

Living Institutions: Bringing Emotions into Organizational Institutionalism

2018 ◽  
pp. 591-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaco Lok ◽  
W.E. Douglas Creed ◽  
Rich DeJordy ◽  
Maxim Voronov
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Institutionalism

Attending to Capitalism in Organizational Institutionalism

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 10295
Author(s):  
Paul M Hirsch ◽  
Michael Lounsbury ◽  
Gerald A. McDermott ◽  
Renate Elisabeth Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Institutionalism

scholarly journals Nordic Openness in Practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juho Vesa
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Government Communication ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Organizational Institutionalism ◽  
The Government ◽  
Strong Norm

Abstract Due to the tradition of ‘Nordic openness’, and intensified by international trends, the norm of policy-making transparency is strong in Finland. Inspired by organizational institutionalism, the present article studies what this notion of transparency means in practice. A case study of a social security reform committee is presented. The consensus-building practices typical of Finnish corporatist policy-making significantly constrained the transparency of government communication during the lifetime of the committee. The government communicated actively in public to meet the demand for transparency; but in order to secure effective bargaining, the government communicated issues concerning the committee so vaguely that it did not inspire wide public discussion. Public discussion was instead mainly fuelled by leaks. These findings suggest that a strong norm of transparency can lead to ceremonial transparency, where government public communication is loosely coupled with policy-making practices. These ceremonies might strengthen the notion of Nordic openness.

scholarly journals Organizational institutionalism in the academic field in Brazil: social dynamics and networks

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (spe) ◽  
pp. 149-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson Ronaldo Guarido Filho ◽  
Clóvis L. Machado-da-Silva ◽  
Sandro Aparecido Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Organizational Institutionalism ◽  
Academic Events

This article is based on the assumption that the construction of scientific knowledge is a social process characterized by the recursive dynamic between the social and intellectual dimensions. In light of this statement, we investigated how the construction of the institutional perspective is delineated in the context of organizational studies in Brazil from 1993 to 2007. The study is based on documentary research of articles published in scientific journals and at academic events. For this purpose, we analyzed social networks and used bibliometric indicators in order to map the cooperation relationships between researchers and intellectual framework, based on the cited authors. The results show the influence of social relationships in the process of constructing scientific knowledge. The findings reveal that the expansion of the field is based on the growing elaboration of a social organization with close links to the activities of continuant and transient researchers. These circumstances denote the stratification both of production and the relationships between authors, since continuant and transient researchers are responsible for the intermediation of relations and the consolidation of production in the academic field that is being analyzed. The findings also reveal a secondary dynamic of the activities of researchers located on the margin of the network and the presence of Brazilian researchers among the most cited authors, an indication of a legitimized local intellectual base.

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Royston Greenwood ◽  
Christine Oliver ◽  
Thomas Lawrence ◽  
Renate Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Institutionalism

Why Do We Keep Coming Back to Institutions?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Organizational Institutionalism

The article examines contemporary philosophical and theoretical trends that lead to the dispersion and fragmentation of theories and research methodologies and even of the subject of inquiry. This process is dismantling the basic ontological distinctions that have long determined both the epistemological and the cultural characteristics of European society and science. These theoretical leanings have their own social and cultural roots in the rapidly increasing complexity of modern civilization. That civilization is relinquishing what Max Weber saw as a crucial distinguishing feature of modern society: its ability to comprehend the structure and functioning of the surrounding world. The author finds that one result is the emergence of a “new naivety” in which insurmountable difficulties in attaining rational understanding justify postulation of the ontological independence of actors, objects, etc., as well as the resurgence of various forms of metaphysics. The importance of an emotional relationship toward the world, which increasingly manifests itself as a universe of singularities, is expanding in step with the loss of a rational horizon for subjectivity in modern society. The historical perspective of the institutional approach has several epistemological advantages for dealing with these tendencies. The institutional approach maintains continuity with the project of modern historiography as such by concentrating on phenomena that have a comparable duration and sustainability and by facilitating examination of problems in the sociology of knowledge, for which a wide range of analytical techniques has been developed in order to analyze the interaction of institutions with different scales (for instance, within the framework of organizational institutionalism) among others. The historical analysis of institutions also has a significant practical value by disabusing us of a naive view of the world (including the natural world) as some kind of natural and unmediated given and by making us aware of the contingency of our historical existence. The institutional approach and modern historiography share a common mission as an emancipatory exercise in self-knowledge.

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