Institutional Work: Taking Stock and Making It Matter
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Institutional Work: Taking Stock and Making It Matter
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In this chapter, we have two aims: to review the first decade of research on institutional work,and to explore how the institutional work perspective can have a greater impact on institutions“that matter”. We structure our review around the “what”, “who” and “how” of institutional work to highlight key developments and identify problematic gaps. We find that scholarship in this tradition has focused primarily on middle-range institutions with limited scope, relatively homogenous actor networks, and the use of symbolic work. This has come at the expense of research on large-scale institutions with cross-field impacts, heterogeneous actor networks, and the use of material as well relational work. We argue it will be crucial to address these shortcomings if we are to enable the institutional work perspective to become a practical and impactful tool for addressing major social problems. This chapter encourages scholars to develop research on institutional work to tackle the challenges surrounding the institutions that matter.
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In publication
Pages
558-590
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Medium
Print
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Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
Citation
Hampel, C. E., Lawrence, T. B., & Tracy, P. (2017). Institutional Work: Taking Stock and Making It Matter. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, T. B. Lawrence, & R. E. Meyer (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (pp. 558–590). https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446280669.n22
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Published Text
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Theoretical
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