Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution. Barley, S. R. & Tolbert, P. S. Organization Studies, 18(1):93--117, January, 1997.
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Institutional theory and structuration theory both contend that institutions and actions are inextricably linked and that institutionalization is best understood as a dynamic, ongoing process. Institutionalists, however, have pursued an empirical agenda that has largely ignored how institutions are created, altered, and reproduced, in part, because their models of institutionalization as a pro cess are underdeveloped. Structuration theory, on the other hand, largely remains a process theory of such abstraction that it has generated few empirical studies. This paper discusses the similarities between the two theories, develops an argument for why a fusion of the two would enable institutional theory to significantly advance, develops a model of institutionalization as a structuration process, and proposes methodological guidelines for investigating the process empirically.
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	title = {Institutionalization and {Structuration}: {Studying} the {Links} between {Action} and {Institution}},
	volume = {18},
	issn = {0170-8406, 1741-3044},
	shorttitle = {Institutionalization and {Structuration}},
	url = {http://oss.sagepub.com/content/18/1/93},
	doi = {10.1177/017084069701800106},
	abstract = {Institutional theory and structuration theory both contend that institutions and actions are inextricably linked and that institutionalization is best understood as a dynamic, ongoing process. Institutionalists, however, have pursued an empirical agenda that has largely ignored how institutions are created, altered, and reproduced, in part, because their models of institutionalization as a pro cess are underdeveloped. Structuration theory, on the other hand, largely remains a process theory of such abstraction that it has generated few empirical studies. This paper discusses the similarities between the two theories, develops an argument for why a fusion of the two would enable institutional theory to significantly advance, develops a model of institutionalization as a structuration process, and proposes methodological guidelines for investigating the process empirically.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2016-03-18},
	journal = {Organization Studies},
	author = {Barley, Stephen R. and Tolbert, Pamela S.},
	month = jan,
	year = {1997},
	keywords = {Descriptors: structuration, Institutionalization, Longitudinal analysis, Methodology, Organizational change, social action},
	pages = {93--117},
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