Institutional contradictions, praxis, and institutional change: A dialectical perspective

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Seo, MG; Creed, WED
• 署名单位: Boston College
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/AMR.2002.6588004
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 222-247
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL-CHANGE; TRANSFORMATION; CONSTRUCTION; Isomorphism; ambiguity; alignment; DYNAMICS; IDENTITY; DESIGN; old

摘要

We use a dialectical perspective to provide a unique framework for understanding institutional change that more fully captures its totalistic, historical, and dynamic nature, as well as fundamentally resolves a theoretical dilemma of institutional theory: the relative swing between agency and embeddedness. In this framework institutional change is understood as an outcome of the dynamic interactions between two institutional by-products: institutional contradictions and human praxis. In particular, we depict praxis-agency embedded in a totality of multiple levels of interpenetrating, incompatible institutional arrangements (contradictions) - as an essential driving force of institutional change.