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Studying institutional work in organizations

Published:2011-02-15 Issue:1 Volume:24 Page:51-64
ISSN:0953-4814
Container-title:Journal of Organizational Change Management
language:en
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Author:

Bjerregaard Toke

Abstract

PurposeIn order to provide new and other directions to institutional studies in organization theory, Lawrence and Suddaby forward the notion of institutional work of actors aimed at maintaining, changing and disrupting institutions. The purpose of this paper is to further theory and method in studying the institutional work of people in organizations.Design/methodology/approachMethodological insights from the ways in which theories of human agency in institutional contexts have co‐evolved with field study methodologies are analyzed in related fields of research, particularly in sociology and anthropology.FindingsThe ways have been analyzed in which social theories of human agency in institutional contexts and field methodology have co‐evolved in an inter‐disciplinary perspective. The analysis shows how field methodologies may provide inspirations to theory and method in studying institutional work.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings suggest that institutional organization research may prosper by grounding the study of institutional work on ethnographic methodologies.Originality/valueThis paper contributes methodological inspirations to studying organizational actors' work with accomplishing change and stability, which constitutes a comparatively underexplored line of inquiry in organizational institutionalism.

Publisher

Emerald

Subject

Management of Technology and Innovation,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Strategy and Management,General Decision Sciences

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