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Institutions and organizations : ideas and interests / W. Richard Scott.
LIBRA HM786 .S3845 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, W. Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organizational sociology.
- Social institutions.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Sage Publications, [2008]
- Summary:
- A comprehensive analysis of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations... Creating a clear, analytical framework for readers, Institutions and Organizations: ideas and Interests, Third Edition continues to reflect the richness and diversity of institutional thought, viewed both historically and as a contemporary, ongoing field of study. By presenting the differences as well as the underlying commonalities of Institutional/theories, this book presents a cohesive view of the many flavors and colors of institutionalism. It evaluates and clarifies developments in both theory and research while identifying future research directions.
- New to the Third Edition: Elaborates on the three pillars of institutions as part of a larger framework and sheds light on the interplay between institutions and social systems, Includes a more detailed discussion between three differing explanations and approaches of institutionalization-economic, sociological, and neo-institutional perspectives of organizational studies, Examines how symbols, relations, routines, artifacts, and other carriers transmit institutional arrangements across time and space, Devotes a chapter to the theoretical and practical significance of organization fields, Emphasizes the best and most recent theoretical and empirical contributions in each chapter.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Early institutionalists
- Institutional theory meets organization studies
- Crafting an analytic framework I : three pillars of institutions
- Constructing an analytic framework II : content, agency, carriers, and levels
- Institutional construction
- Institutionalization
- Institutional processes and organizations
- Institutional processes and organization fields
- An overview and a caution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781412950909
- 1412950902
- OCLC:
- 131068683
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