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Institutional Work : Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations

ISBN: 9780521518550 | 0521518555
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 8/31/2009

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SummaryTable of Contents
The 'institutional' approach shows how features of social life act as mechanisms of social control. This book sets a new 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.
List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1. Introduction: theorizing and studying institutional work Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca; Part I. Essays on Institutional Work: 2. Institutional work and the paradox of embedded agency Julie Battilana and Thomas D'Aunno; 3. Leadership as institutional work: a bridge to the other side Matthew S. Kraatz; 4. Bringing change into the lives of the poor: entrepreneurship outside traditional boundaries Ignasi Marti and Johanna Mair; 5. Institutional work as the creative embrace... MORE

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