Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution

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Title: Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution
Abstract/Description: Institutional theory and structuration theory both contend that institutions and actions are inextricably linked and that institutionalization is best understood as a dynamic, ongoing process. Institutionalists, however, have pursued an empirical agenda that has largely ignored how institutions are created, altered, and reproduced, in part, because their models of institutionalization as a pro cess are underdeveloped. Structuration theory, on the other hand, largely remains a process theory of such abstraction that it has generated few empirical studies. This paper discusses the similarities between the two theories, develops an argument for why a fusion of the two would enable institutional theory to significantly advance, develops a model of institutionalization as a structuration process, and proposes methodological guidelines for investigating the process empirically.
Author/creator: Barley, Stephen R.; Tolbert, Pamela S.
Date: 1997
In publication: Organization Studies
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Pages: 93-117
Resource type: en Background/Context
Medium: en Print
Background/context type: en Conceptual
Open access/free-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
Language: en
ISSN: 0170-8406
DOI: 10.1177/017084069701800106
URL: Free Access Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals)
Citation: Barley, S. R., & Tolbert, P. S. (1997). Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution. Organization Studies, 18(1), 93–117. https://doi.org/10.1177/017084069701800106
Cited in: The Institution of Schooling
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Theoretical

Item sets: Open Access Resource (IRE); Handbook Chapter 4 Citations

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