Abstract:Abstract Although new institutional theory has turned into a widely accepted framework for actor‐centered studies dealing with organizations, state, and society, it lacks the qualities of a full‐fledg...Abstract Although new institutional theory has turned into a widely accepted framework for actor‐centered studies dealing with organizations, state, and society, it lacks the qualities of a full‐fledged theory. Scholars refer to different disciplinary approaches and traditions in sociology, social psychology, economics, and political sciences with only a few common lines of argumentation. Nevertheless, new institutionalism offers a useful conceptual framework for organizational studies and for other fields in the social sciences, such as urban and regional studies or political studies. A clear problem of institutional theory is its simplified description of the way institutions work. Although many critical scholars see new institutionalism as a concept that is too abstract and too diverse to be directly translated into a clear analytical approach, new institutionalist research can open up a broad field for inductive investigations favoring a better understanding of how particular organizations work, focusing on issues of agency within specific institutional settings and constraints.Read More
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-04-27
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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