The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

摘要: Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students organizations, the study institutions is undergoing renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, first time, both often-cited foundation works and latest writings scholars associated with "institutional" approach to organization analysis. In their introduction, editors discuss points convergence disagreement institutionally oriented research economics political science, locate relation major developments sociological theory. Several chapters consolidate theoretical advances past decade, identify clarify paradigm's key ambiguities, push agenda novel ways by developing sophisticated arguments about linkage between institutional patterns forms structure. The empirical studies that follow--involving such diverse topics as mental health clinics, art museums, large corporations, civil-service systems, national polities--illustrate explanatory power theory analysis organizational change. Required reading anyone interested sociology should appeal concerned culture, institutions,