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Title
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Institutions and Institutional Work
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Abstract/Description
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In this chapter, we aim to provide a summary and synthesis of research on what we refer to as 'institutional work' - the purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions. Thus far, research on institutional work has been largely unconnected as such - literatures on institutional entrepreneurship and deinstitutionalization have emerged as semi-coherent research streams, but the overall focus has remained largely unarticulated. Thus, a key contribution of this chapter will be the provision of a framework that connects previously disparate studies of institutional work and the articulation of a research agenda for the area. By focusing on empirical work that has occurred in the past 1 5 years and mapping i t i n terms of the forms of institutional work that it has examined, we are able to both provide a first cataloguing of forms of institutional work and point to issues and areas that have been under-examined.
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Date
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2006
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In publication
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The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies
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Edition
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2
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Pages
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215-254
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Publisher
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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Medium
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en
Print
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Background/context type
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en
Conceptual
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Open access/free-text available
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en
Yes
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Peer reviewed
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en
Yes
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Citation
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Lawrence, T. B., & Suddaby, R. (2006). Institutions and Institutional Work. In The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies (2nd ed., pp. 215–254). SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781848608030
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Place
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London
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