''DID YOU NOTICE THAT? THEORIZING DIFFERENCES IN THE CAPACITY TO APPREHEND INSTITUTIONAL CONTRADICTIONS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Voronov, Maxim; Yorks, Lyle
• 署名单位: Brock University; Columbia University; Columbia University Teachers College
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2013.0152
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 563-586
• 关键词: IDENTITY WORK; INHABITED INSTITUTIONS; SOCIAL-MOVEMENT; IRON CAGE; ORGANIZATIONS; reflection; legitimacy; emotions; TECHNOLOGY; complexity

摘要

Over the past decade, institutional researchers have relied extensively on the premise that institutional contradictions are key drivers of institutional instability and institutional change. In this article we argue that apprehending institutional contradictions that is, experiencing institutional arrangements as provisional and potentially changeable upon encountering the contradictions is more problematic than typically acknowledged. Drawing on insights from constructive developmental theory, we develop an individual-level theory that seeks to explain the differences in people's capacity to apprehend institutional contradictions. The resulting framework proposes that there are important differences among people with respect to the nature of their investment in institutional arrangements that correspond to the differences in both blockages and facilitators of apprehension. The framework contributes important insights to the study of embedded agency and inhabited institutionalism, as well as strategic change.