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> Institutional Work:
> Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations
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> Edited by
> Thomas B. Lawrence
> Simon Fraser University
> Roy Suddaby
> University of Alberta
> Bernard Leca
> ESC Rouen
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http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521518550
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> The 'institutional' approach to organizational research has shown how
> enduring features of social life - such as marriage and bureaucracy -
> act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally
> focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the
> fields in which they operate, providing strong accounts of the processes
> through which institutions govern action. In contrast, the study of
> institutional work reorients these traditional concerns, shifting the
> focus to understanding how action affects institutions. 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.
> Through a series of essays and case studies, it explores the conceptual
> core of institutional work, identifies institutional work strategies,
> provides exemplars for future empirical research, and embeds the concept
> within broader sociological debates and ideas.
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> Contents
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> 1. Introduction: theorizing and studying institutional work Thomas B.
> Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca;
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> 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;
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> 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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