Description
Book Synopsis
Institutions - the structures, practices, and meanings that define what people and organizations think, do, and aspire to - are created through process. They are ''work in progress'' that involves continual efforts to maintain, modify, or disturb them. Institutional logics are also in motion, holding varying degrees of dominance that change over time. This volume brings together two streams of thought within organization theory - institutional theory and process perspective - to advocate for stronger process ontology that highlights institutions as emergent, generative, political, and social.A stronger process view allows us to challenge our understanding of central concepts within institutional theory, such as ''loose coupling'', ''institutional work'', the work of institutional logics on the ground, and institutionalization between diffusion and translation. Enriched with an emphasis on practice and widened by taking a broad view of institutions, this volume draws on the Ninth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies to offer key insights that will inform our thinking of institutions as processes.
Table of Contents
1: Trish Reay, Tammar B. Zilber, Ann Langley, and Hardimos Tsoukas: Introduction: Institutions and Organizations: A Process View 2: Steve Barley: Working Institutions 3: Renate Meyer: A Processual View on Institutions: A Note from a Phenomenological Institutional Perspective 4: Tim Hallett: On Doing Institutional Analysis without Institutional Theory 5: Francesca Polletta: Stories of (and instead of) Process 6: Ted Schatzki: Processes, Life, and the Practice Plenum 7: Amalya Oliver: Bringing Process into Structure: Combining Network Analyses with Process Lenses to Explore Field-Level Evolution and Changes 8: Micki Eisenman, Michal Frenkel, and Varda Wasserman: The Interpretation of Design-Based-Cues: A Processual Approach 9: Mark de Rond and Tim Hallett: The Long Walk to Aleppo: Institutional Myths, Inhabited Institutions, and Ideals in the Real World 10: Steve Maguire and Cynthia Hardy: The Discourse of Risk and Processes of Institutional Change: The Case of Green Chemistry 11: Terry McNulty: Making and Regulating Business Judgement: Judicial Practice, Orders and Logics 12: Davide Nicolini and Pedro Monteiro: Systematic Heterogeneity in the Adaptation Process of Management Innovations. Insights from the Italian Public Sector 13: Matthew Jones, Alan Blackwell, Karl Prince, Sallyanne Meakins, Alexander Simpson and Alain Vuylsteke: Data as Process: From Objective Resource to Contingent Performance
