Microfoundations of institutions

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Haack, Patrick
• Sieweke, Jost
• Wessel, Lauri

Publisher

Bingley, U.K: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9781787691278

Series

Research in the sociology of organizations volume 65, Part B

Subject(s)

• MACROECONOMICS
• STRATEGIC PLANNING

Notes

• Includes index

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Abstract

he notion of microfoundations has received growing interest in neo-institutional theory along with an increasing interest in microfoundational research in disciplines such as strategic management and organizational economics.

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Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xxv, 442 pages)

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Prelims
Section 4: Communicative Perspective on Microfoundations
Chapter 1: Arguments and Institutions
Chapter 2: Rituals of Critique and Institutional Maintenance at the United Nations Climate Change Summits
Chapter 3: Framing Fairness: Microfoundations of the Moral Legitimacy of Alberta’s Oil Sands
Chapter 4: From Cruise Director to Rabbi: Authoring the Agentic Self through Conventions of Narrative Necessity
Chapter 5: Melting Icebergs vs. Spectacularization: Storytelling of Conflicting Institutional Demands in Wildlife Documentaries
Chapter 6: Microfoundations and Recursive Analysis: A Mixed-Methods Framework for Language-Based Research, Computational Methods, and Theory Development
Section 5: Behavioural Perspective on Microfoundations
Chapter 7: Practicing Capitals Across Fields: Extending Bourdieu to Study Inter-Field Dynamics
Chapter 8: “Navigation Techniques”: How Ordinary Participants Orient Themselves in Scrambled Institutions
Chapter 9: Institutional Entrepreneurs’ Skills: A Multi-Dimensional Concept
Chapter 10: Situating Frames and Institutional Logics: The Social Situation as a Key Institutional MicroFoundation
Chapter 11: Institutionalizing Place: Materiality and Meaning in Boston’s North End
Chapter 12: Hybridity and Power in the MicroFoundations of Professional Work
Chapter 13: Outsourcing Public Services: A Multilevel Model of Leadership-Driven Gradual Institutional Change of Public Services Provision
Chapter 14: Creating the British Academic Health Science Centres: Understanding the Microfoundations of the Translation of Organizational Forms
Section 6: Reflections on Microfoundations
Chapter 15: Conceptual Metaphors in MicroFoundations of Institutional Theory
Chapter 16: Bringing Society Back in Again: The Importance of Social Interaction in an Inhabited Institutionalism
Chapter 17: What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Microfoundations? Conceptualizations of Actor and Multi-Level Accounts of the Micro in Institutional Processes
Chapter 18: Why Worry? Celebrating and Reformulating “Integrative Institutionalism”
Chapter 19: Towards a Theory of Micro-Institutional Processes: Forgotten Roots, Links to Social-Psychological Research, and New Ideas
Section 7: Epilogues
Chapter 20: Microfoundations for Institutional Theory?
Chapter 21: The Social Construction of the “Micro-Social”
Chapter 22: Institutions on the Ground
Index

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00281/20	658.4012 Mic	Online !	Available