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3 - Institutions, Institutional Effects, and Institutionalism (1991)

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

Clarification of the ideas of institution, institutionalization, and institutionalism.Conceives of institutions as controlling patterns of widely varying sorts, relevant to the explanation of, and stabilization of, the behavior of the full range of modern actors.

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institutionsinstitutionalizationinstitutionalismneoinstitutionalism
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
 , pp. 37 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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