scholarly journals Empreendedorismo Feminino Sob a Perspectiva da Estratégia como Prática e Teoria Institucional

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-527
Author(s):  
Flávia Oliveira Santos ◽  
José Ednilson Matos Júnior ◽  
Darlane Amorim Vieira ◽  
Eúde Do Amor Cornélio ◽  
Felipe Borges De Santana
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Female Entrepreneurship ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Strategy As Practice ◽  
Under Construction

The aim of this paper is to suggest a new theoretical perspective in studies on female entrepreneurship, more specifically, an analysis of the phenomenon from the perspective of Strategy as Practice and Institutional Theory. For that, a qualitative bibliographic research was carried out, in order to extract concepts that would make this analysis possible. A search was made on the CAPES Journals portal (CAFE / UFS) and on the Google Scholar platform, where 28 (twenty-eight) articles were selected from national and international, which helped the development of this study. As a result, it is highlighted that the analysis of female entrepreneurship under the lens of strategy as practice, brings the focus of observation to the strategist subject, thus contributing to the understanding of institutional practice, that is, an investigation that starts from the micro to the macro. This analysis is one of the main theoretical contributions of this study, strengthening a field of research still under construction. There is also a contribution to the field of Organizational Studies, because when understanding that entrepreneurship is a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary phenomenon, it gives rise to data that provide new views on the nature and reality of the phenomenon studied.

scholarly journals The development of institutional theory in the field of organization studies in Brazil

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson Ronaldo Guarido Filho ◽  
Clóvis L. Machado-da-Silva
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Events ◽  
Shared Understandings

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, considering transformations in its substantive content as well as the social organization of scientists. The study is based on documentary research of published articles in scientific journals and at academic events. We analyzed social networks of authorship in order to map the cooperation relationships between researchers, and we also used scientometric analysis, based on cited and co-cited authors, for mapping the intellectual framework throughout the period under study. The findings reveal that social ties among scientists in the field of institutional theory are representative of intellectual affinity, which means that there are social mechanisms working in the process of diffusion of ideas and formation of shared understandings, both aspects regarded to social embeddedness of researchers in the clusters in which they belong.

“It’s the context all the way down!”

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg G. Wang ◽  
David Lamond ◽  
Verner Worm
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Chinese Management ◽  
Societal Culture ◽  
Institutional Forces ◽  
Institutional Contexts

Purpose – This paper aims to emphasize the importance of Chinese institutional contexts beyond “culture” by analyzing a few non-cultural institution-dependent contexts in Chinese HRM research, using an institutional theory perspective. Design/methodology/approach – The authors review existing Chinese indigenous management research from an institutional theoretical perspective and provide a critique of the research from that perspective. Findings – Chinese contexts are more than Confucianism. Focusing on this aspect of culture without integrating other institutional contexts, while informative, is unlikely to identify and explain the uniqueness of Chinese individual and organizational behaviors. Informed by institutional theory, the authors examine how institutional language context influences Chinese institutional behavior. The authors also argue that the guanxi phenomenon is more strongly dependent on institutional forces than on culture in the recent Chinese history. Incorporating these “non-cultural” institutional contexts in research enables us to describe the “what” and explore the “why” and “how” in theory development, rather than placing value judgments on the institutional arrangements. Research limitations/implications – While societal culture provides an important institutional context, China’s broad culture is not unique among countries with similar Confucian traditions. Chinese management scholars are encouraged to be mindful of pervasive institutional contexts in exploring and theorizing local organizational phenomena. Research without considering non-cultural institutional contexts may prevent a finer-grained understanding of Chinese organizational phenomena for developing Chinese management theory, and it is unlikely to identify the uniqueness of Chinese organizational phenomena among countries influenced by similar Confucian cultural traditions. Originality/value – Built on previous literature, this paper is among the first to specify and examine explicitly non-Confucian Chinese institutional contexts as a basis for the exploration of Chinese organizational phenomena.

Legitimized identity vs identifiable legitimacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Lin Xiu ◽  
Feng Lu ◽  
Xin Liang
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Organizational Adaptation ◽  
Organizational Legitimacy ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Social Perspective ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Comprehensive Studies

Purpose Organizational identity and organizational legitimacy are related constructs, but comprehensive studies of the relationship have been lacking in the literature of organizational studies. This paper aims to propose a framework that includes four possible relationships between organizational legitimacy and identity. Design/methodology/approach The authors evaluate the causes of each of these relationships and an important consequence of the relationship: their influences on organizational adaptation. Findings With a series of propositions, the authors make a tentative, but valuable, move toward integrating two broad streams of social perspective of organizing, institutional theory and organizational identity and call for research efforts in this direction. Originality/value The paper is the first one that explores the relationship between organizational identity and organizational legitimacy in a comprehensive way.

A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Soccer Balls, Child Labour and Postcolonial Impoverishment

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 1055-1077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzad R. Khan ◽  
Kamal A. Munir ◽  
Hugh Willmott
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Soccer Ball ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Positive Light

Institutional entrepreneurship is typically portrayed in a positive light in the institutional theory literature, frequently symbolizing ideals of progress and innovation. In this paper, we explore a `darker' side of institutional entrepreneurship by considering how the long-standing institutional practice of child labour was eliminated from the world's largest soccer ball manufacturing cluster in Sialkot, Pakistan. Our focus is upon the operation of power rather than the agency of the coalition of entrepreneurs. We show how power operated hegemonically in solving and reporting the issue of child labour in a way that deflected attention from `darker' problematic aspects of this seemingly progressive and benign institutional reform. Consideration of these dynamics presents a challenge to conventional representations of institutional entrepreneurship and suggests the relevance of developing a more critical perspective when studying instances of institutional work.

scholarly journals Institutionalization in service providing companies: analysis in recruitment and selection consultancies (R&S)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1554-1582
Author(s):  
Carla Milena Lordêlo Chaves ◽  
Maria Conceição Melo Silva Luft ◽  
Ronalty Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Consulting Companies

Research supported by institutional theory contributes to organizational studies because they insert variables such as shared values, search for legitimacy, and isomorphism in the analysis of relationships between organizations and between organizations and the environment. In this context, this article aims to analyze the stages of institutionalization in consulting companies providing services in the recruitment and selection of people (R&S). A qualitative-descriptive study was performed with six recruitment and selection consultancies located in Sergipe. The results demonstrated the administrative functioning of organizations about the stages of institutionalization, revealing an institutional scenario for these service providers, besides highlighting the main obstacles to the sedimentation of the companies analyzed.

Moving Institutional Logics Forward: Emotion and Meaningful Material Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Friedland
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Linguistic Understanding ◽  
Material Practice ◽  
Meaningful Material ◽  
The Individual

Institutional theory, and the institutional logics approach in particular, lacks the feelings that produce, sustain and disrupt institutional practice. This is due in part to rational, instrumental understandings of the individual in practice, and in part to the cognitive and linguistic understanding of that practice, sustained by classification, qualification and belief. Emotion, a joining of language and bodily affect, is ready at hand for institutional theory. There is increasing recognition that emotion is a powerful device for institutionalization and de-institutionalization. In this essay, I consider emotion’s position in institutional theory and how we might position it in an institutional logics approach. I will argue that emotion not only mediates institutions, but can itself be institutional.

Strategy-as-practice meets neo-institutional theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Suddaby ◽  
David Seidl ◽  
Jane K Lê
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Strategy As Practice

scholarly journals Strategy and virtue: Developing strategy-as-practice through virtue ethics

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haridimos Tsoukas
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Developing Strategy ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
Articulation Work ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Strategy Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strategy As Practice

Strategy-as-practice research has usefully built on earlier strategy process research by taking into account the social embeddedness of strategy making. While such an approach has generated valuable insights, it has curiously left unexplored the moral dimension of practice. In this article, we show how the potential of strategy-as-practice research may be more fully realized if the moral dimension of practice is conceptualized through virtue ethics (especially MacIntyre’s version). Specifically, we first reconceptualize, through virtue ethics, the three main concepts of strategy-as-practice—practice, praxis, and practitioners—underscoring the inherently moral constitution of actions undertaken in strategy-related work. Moreover, we suggest that strategic management is viewed as a particular kind of practice (what we call “competitive institutional practice”), charged with “values articulation work” and “balancing work.” While the former articulates a good purpose for the organization, the latter seeks to care for both excellence and success through balancing “capabilities development work” with “differentiation work.” Illustrations are provided to support this argument, and several suggestions for further research are offered.

Institutional Theory in Organization Studies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. David ◽  
Pamela S. Tolbert ◽  
Johnny Boghossian
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Standard Practices

Institutional theory is a prominent perspective in contemporary organizational research. It encompasses a large, diverse body of theoretical and empirical work connected by a common emphasis on cultural understandings and shared expectations. Institutional theory is often used to explain the adoption and spread of formal organizational structures, including written policies, standard practices, and new forms of organization. Tracing its roots to the writings of Max Weber on legitimacy and authority, the perspective originated in the 1950s and 1960s with the work of Talcott Parsons, Philip Selznick, and Alvin Gouldner on organization–environment relations. It subsequently underwent a “cognitive turn” in the 1970s, with an emphasis on taken-for-granted habits and assumptions, and became commonly known as “neo-institutionalism” in organizational studies. Recently, work based on the perspective has shifted from a focus on processes involved in producing isomorphism to a focus on institutional change, exemplified by studies of the emergence of new laws and regulations, products, services, and occupations. The expansion of the theoretical framework has contributed to its long-term vitality, though a number of challenges to its development remain, including resolving inconsistencies in the different models of decision-making and action (homo economicus vs. homo sociologicus) that underpin institutional analysis and improving our understanding of the intersection of socio-cultural forces and entrepreneurial agency.

Using Institutional Theory with Sensemaking Theory: A Case Study of Information System Implementation in Healthcare

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Blegind Jensen ◽  
Annemette Kjærgaard ◽  
Per Svejvig
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Sensemaking Theory ◽  
Is Implementation ◽  
Historical Structures ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
The Individual

Institutional theory has proven to be a central analytical perspective for investigating the role of social and historical structures of information systems (IS) implementation. However, it does not explicitly account for how organisational actors make sense of and enact technologies in their local context. We address this limitation by exploring the potential of using institutional theory with sensemaking theory to study IS implementation in organisations. We argue that each theoretical perspective has its own explanatory power and that a combination of the two facilitates a much richer interpretation of IS implementation by linking macro- and micro-levels of analysis. To illustrate this, we report from an empirical study of the implementation of an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system in a clinical setting. Using key constructs from the two theories, our findings address the phenomenon of implementing EPRs at three levels: the organisational field, the organisational/group, and the individual/socio-cognitive level. The study shows how a rationalised myth of an efficient EPR system has travelled from the organisational field to the hospital ward and on to individual doctors. The findings also provide evidence of a strong human agency by showing how doctors enact their work practices and shape the use of the EPR system. The study contributes to IS research by showing the need to address macro-level structures, as well as individual interpretations and practical use situations, in order to identify how and why information systems are adopted by users.

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