Institutional Work : Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations
ISBN: 9780521178525 | 0521178525
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 10/27/2011
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The 'institutional' approach shows how features of social life act as mechanisms of social control. This book sets a research agenda within the field of institutional work by analyzing the ways in which individuals, groups, and organizations work to create, maintain, and disrupt the institutions that structure their lives.
A series of essays and empirical case studies exploring the nature of institutional work.
A series of essays and empirical case studies exploring the nature of institutional work.
| List of figures | p. vii |
| List of tables | p. viii |
| List of contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction: theorizing and studying institutional work | p. 1 |
| Essays on institutional work | p. 29 |
| Institutional work and the paradox of embedded agency | p. 31 |
| Leadership as institutional work: a bridge to the other side | p. 59 |
| Bringing change into the lives of the poor: entrepreneurship ou... MORE | p. 92 |
| Institutional work as the creative embrace of contradiction | p. 120 |
| Studies of institutional work | p. 141 |
| Building the iron cage: institutional creation work in the context of competing proto-institutions | p. 143 |
| Scandinavian institutionalism - a case of institutional work | p. 178 |
| Institutional maintenance as narrative acts | p. 205 |
| Maintaining an institution in a contested organizational field: the work of the AACSB and its constituents | p. 236 |
| Institutional "dirty" work: preserving institutions through strategic decoupling | p. 262 |
| Doing which work? A practice approach to institutional pluralism | p. 284 |
| Index | p. 317 |
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