Review
"Max Weber told us that institutions cannot be understood without considering the historical aggregation of individual activities. For many years, though, institutional theory had done little with this insight, focusing instead on the role of institutions as powerful social constraints. Priorities have clearly changed and this volume belongs with the contemporary lively 'deconstruction' of the institutional 'iron cage.' It is a welcome and timely contribution, demonstrating through a series of rich empirical explorations that institutions are created, changed and maintained through work, activities, practices, and discourses. We need more books of this kind, emphasizing the conflictual, messy, contradictory, ambiguous, processual, and ongoing nature of institutional work."
Marie-Laure Djelic, Professor, ESSEC Business School
"The concept of institutional work is one of the most exciting conceptual developments in institutional theory in the last decade. It provides an invaluable conceptual framework for understanding the institutional effects of purposeful action and has connected conversations about institutional maintenance and change in a powerful new way. In this volume, Lawrence, Suddaby, and Leca expand on their early work on the topic and bring together an impressive group of scholars to further develop the concept through inspired theorizing and direct empirical application. This book is an absolute must for anyone interested in the future of institutional theory. I highly recommend you read it today!"
Nelson Phillips, Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behaviour, Imperial College Business School
Product Description
The 'institutional' approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life - such as marriage and bureaucracy - act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the fields in which they operate, providing strong accounts of the processes through which institutions govern action. In contrast, the study of institutional work reorients these traditional concerns, shifting the focus to understanding how action affects institutions. This book sets a new research agenda within the field of institutional work by analyzing the ways in which individuals, groups, and organizations work to create, maintain, and disrupt the institutions that structure their lives. Through a series of essays and case studies, it explores the conceptual core of institutional work, identifies institutional work strategies, provides exemplars for future empirical research, and embeds the concept within broader sociological debates and ideas.
Book Description
The 'institutional' approach shows how features of social life act as mechanisms of social control. This book sets a new research agenda within the field of institutional work by analyzing the ways in which individuals, groups, and organizations work to create, maintain, and disrupt the institutions that structure their lives.
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读完这本书,我最大的感受是,原来我们生活在一个由无数“共识”和“遗留物”构成的巨大迷宫里。作者的笔触极其细腻,他没有停留在对既有制度的简单描述上,而是深入到制度“是如何发生作用的”这一核心问题。他用一系列令人信服的案例,展示了那些看似“自然而然”的制度实践,其实是长期以来无数次“制度工作”(Institutional Work)的结果——这些工作可能充满了冲突、妥协、误解,甚至是故意的操纵。尤其在关于“制度的解体与重塑”那一章,作者的分析简直像是一位经验丰富的地质学家在描述板块漂移,每一步的微小变动都可能引发未来的巨大地震。我发现,自己以前在分析任何组织变革时所依赖的简单“效率”或“理性选择”模型,在这本书面前显得如此苍白无力。这本书迫使我开始关注那些边缘的声音、那些被主流叙事所忽略的“抵抗行为”,因为正是这些看似微不足道的日常反抗,才有可能在未来孕育出全新的制度形态。对于试图理解跨国组织协调难度的管理者而言,这简直是一本揭示深层动力的“操作手册”,只不过这份手册写得极其学术化,需要耐心去解读。
评分这本书最引人入胜之处,在于它似乎在为我们描绘一幅关于“权力如何隐秘地组织社会”的全景图。作者似乎对那些被视为“无涉政治”的领域——比如会计标准、职业伦理,甚至是对“好员工”的定义——进行了深入的“去魅”工作。他揭示了这些看似中立的规范背后,是如何潜藏着特定群体的利益诉求和意识形态的投射。我发现自己开始对我们工作环境中的每一个看似无害的规章制度产生了怀疑,重新审视它们存在的真正目的和产生的历史路径。文中的论证方式非常严谨,大量的比较案例支撑起了作者的理论框架,使得“制度工作”不再是一个抽象的概念,而是一种可以被观察、被分析的社会实践活动。然而,这种洞察也带来了一种微妙的焦虑:如果一切都是被建构的,那么我们引以为傲的“进步”和“理性化”是否也只是一种暂时占据上风的建构呢?对于任何想要在复杂组织中有效推动变革的人来说,这本书提供了一个必要的警示:在行动之前,必须先彻底理解你所要面对的那个“制度土壤”的深度和韧性。
评分坦白说,这本书的阅读体验是充满挑战性的,它并非那种可以让你在咖啡馆里轻松翻阅的读物。它的语言是高度凝练且充满专业术语的,如果你不是事先对社会学理论有所涉猎,初读时会感到门槛很高。然而,一旦你跨过那道学术的初级障碍,其内部的逻辑张力和深刻洞察力便会像一个黑洞一样把你吸引进去。我尤其关注作者对“制度的惰性”这一概念的阐释。制度之所以难以改变,不仅仅是因为人们习惯于现状,更是因为制度本身内嵌了一套自我强化的反馈机制,任何试图偏离轨道的行为都会立刻遭遇来自环境的“阻尼力”。作者并没有把制度看作一个静态的蓝图,而是将其描绘成一个不断呼吸、不断自我修复的有机体,这个有机体有其生存的本能。这让我对任何关于“颠覆式创新”的言论都多了一层警惕:真正的颠覆,需要的不仅是技术或商业模式的创新,更是一种对支撑现有制度运作逻辑的根本性瓦解。这本书的价值在于,它提供了一种看待世界运行方式的全新“透镜”,一旦戴上,许多过去模糊不清的社会现象便会突然变得清晰起来,虽然这种清晰可能带着一丝冰冷的理性。
评分这部厚重的著作初读时,着实让人有些不知所措,它仿佛是一部精心编织的复杂网络,将我们习以为常的“制度”概念抽丝剥茧,从一个我们从未想过的角度进行审视。作者似乎沉浸在一种近乎人类学的考察之中,带着一种冷峻的解剖刀,剖析着那些我们视为理所当然的组织惯例、社会规范乃至意识形态是如何在特定的历史情境和权力博弈中被“构建”和“维持”的。我尤其欣赏作者在处理那些模糊地带时的那种游刃有余,比如当一个看似坚不可摧的机构规范,实际上可能仅仅是某个关键行动者在特定时刻的“临时性”决策所遗留的“化石”。全书的论述过程充满了张力,它既不完全是纯粹的结构主义分析,也非全然的微观行动者理论的胜利,而是巧妙地在宏大叙事与个体实践之间架设了一座充满挑战的桥梁。阅读过程中,我时常需要停下来,翻阅前面的章节,以便更好地消化那些关于“制度的动态演化”和“合法性危机”的精妙论述。对于那些热衷于组织行为学或社会理论的读者来说,这本书无疑提供了一个重塑认知框架的绝佳机会,它迫使我们跳出固有的思维定式,去审视那些看不见的、却又深刻影响我们日常决策的“无形之手”。
评分这是一部需要反复研读才能领会其中三昧的学术巨著。不同于那些提供快速解决方案的管理学书籍,它更像是一部哲学思辨录,探讨的是社会结构的深层逻辑。作者的写作风格是极其克制的,他很少使用煽动性的语言,而是通过对细节的精准捕捉和对因果链条的严密推导,逐步建立起他的核心论点:制度不是“外在于人”的,而是人类持续不断“工作”的结果。我特别欣赏作者在阐述“制度的惯性与合法性维护”时所采用的辩证法,它展示了制度如何通过“自我实现的预言”来固化自身,让参与者心甘情愿地成为制度的维护者。阅读过程中,我常常感到一种智力上的愉悦,因为作者总能在看似不相关的现象之间建立起意想不到的联系,揭示出隐藏在日常表象之下的结构性力量。这本书的价值不在于提供一个现成的答案,而在于它提供了一种全新的“提问方式”,它让读者在面对任何社会现象时,都会本能地去探究:“谁在为这个规则付出代价?”、“这个规则最初是如何被‘说服’大家接受的?”。对于渴望深度理解现代社会运作机理的读者来说,这是一次不可多得的智力探险。
评分Mixed combination of both insightful and so-so chapters on insitutional work. Could be more organized around a coherent theme and leave out some of the distracting chapters.
评分Mixed combination of both insightful and so-so chapters on insitutional work. Could be more organized around a coherent theme and leave out some of the distracting chapters.
评分Mixed combination of both insightful and so-so chapters on insitutional work. Could be more organized around a coherent theme and leave out some of the distracting chapters.
评分Mixed combination of both insightful and so-so chapters on insitutional work. Could be more organized around a coherent theme and leave out some of the distracting chapters.
评分Mixed combination of both insightful and so-so chapters on insitutional work. Could be more organized around a coherent theme and leave out some of the distracting chapters.
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