Institutions and Institutional Work
Item
- Title
- Institutions and Institutional Work
- Abstract/Description
- In this chapter, we aim to provide a summary and synthesis of research on what we refer to as 'institutional work' - the purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions. Thus far, research on institutional work has been largely unconnected as such - literatures on institutional entrepreneurship and deinstitutionalization have emerged as semi-coherent research streams, but the overall focus has remained largely unarticulated. Thus, a key contribution of this chapter will be the provision of a framework that connects previously disparate studies of institutional work and the articulation of a research agenda for the area. By focusing on empirical work that has occurred in the past 1 5 years and mapping i t i n terms of the forms of institutional work that it has examined, we are able to both provide a first cataloguing of forms of institutional work and point to issues and areas that have been under-examined.
- Date
- In publication
- The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies
- Edition
- 2
- Pages
- 215-254
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Resource type
- en Background/Context
- Medium
- en Print
- Background/context type
- en Conceptual
- Open access/free-text available
- en Yes
- Peer reviewed
- en Yes
- URL
- Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Reference)
- Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
- Full-text PDF Shared by Author (Thomas B. Lawarence)
- Citation
- Lawrence, T. B., & Suddaby, R. (2006). Institutions and Institutional Work. In The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies (2nd ed., pp. 215–254). SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781848608030
- Resource status/form
- en Published Text
- Scholarship genre
- en Synthesis/Overview
- Place
- London
- Item sets
- Handbook Conclusion Citations
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