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5 - Reflections on Part II:

Institutional Theory

from Part II - Institutional Theory: Its Role in Modern Social Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

Ronald L. Jepperson  and
John W. Meyer
By
R. Jepperson  and
J. Meyer
Ronald L. Jepperson
Affiliation:
University of Tulsa
John W. Meyer
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Summary

Much contemporary social science still imagines a “society without culture,” and still works with limited conceptions of institutions that understate their effects.

Keywords

neo-institutionalisminstitutionalismactorhoodsocial realismcollective propertiessocial construction
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
 , pp. 126 - 136
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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