Institutional Work - Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 of contradiction Timothy J. Hargrave and Andrew H. Van de Ven; Part II. Studies of Institutional Work: 6. Building the iron cage: institutional creation work in the context of competing proto-institutions Charlene Zietsma and Brent McKnight; 7. Scandinavian institutionalism - a case of institutional work Eva Boxenbaum and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen; 8. Institutional maintenance as narrative acts Tammar B. Zilber; 9. Maintaining an institution in a contested organizational field: the work of AACSB and its constituents Christine Quinn Trank and Marvin Washington; 10. Institutional 'dirty' work: preserving institutions through strategic decoupling Paul M. Hirsch and Y. Sekou Bermiss; 11. Doing which work? A practice approach to institutional pluralism Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Matthiesen and Andrew H. Van de Ven; Index.

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• Authors: Thomas Lawrence, Thomas B. (Simon Fraser University Lawrence, Thomas B. Suddaby Lawrence
• Assisted by: Thomas B. Lawrence (Editor), Lawrence Thomas B. (Editor), Bernard Leca (Editor), Leca Bernard (Editor), Roy Suddaby (Editor), Suddaby Roy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521518550
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51855-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, Organizational theory & behaviour, Organizational theory and behaviour