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Challenges for Institutional Theory
Abstract
This essay offers a critical summation of the use of neo-institutionalism to study organizations. While institutionalism has succeeded in becoming the dominant theory to study macro-organizational phenomena, there is a danger that the theory has been stretched far beyond its core purpose—to understand how organizational structures and processes acquire meaning and continuity beyond their technical goals. I discuss some possible reasons for this displacement and identify four nascent threads of research that hold strong potential for bringing institutional theory back to its core assumptions and objectives; categories, language, work, and aesthetics.
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- Authors
- Suddaby, R.
- Venue
- Journal of Management Inquiry
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-02-05
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 14-20
- ISSN
- 1056-4926 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-6542
- OpenAlex
- W1972612559
- Cited by
- 825
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 61.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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