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Why Worry? Celebrating and Reformulating “Integrative Institutionalism”

Christopher W. J. Steele

Madeline Toubiana

Royston Greenwood

Microfoundations of Institutions

ISBN: 978-1-78769-128-5, eISBN: 978-1-78769-127-8

Publication date: 25 November 2019

Abstract

The core goal of the “micro-foundational” agenda appears to be less an institutionalism founded in the micro, or reduced to the micro, and more some form of integrative institutionalism: that is, an institutionalism that does justice to the perpetual, co-constitutive interplay of local activities (the micro) and trans-local patterns (the macro). In this chapter, thus, the authors argue for a conscious, explicit embrace of integrative institutionalism; and of the broader agenda that this terminology opens up. Based on this overdue rewording the authors highlight additional problems and possibilities – providing a constructive reformulation and elaboration of the “micro-foundational” agenda as it currently stands.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Tammar Zilber and the organizers and participants of the EGOS sub-theme on “Institutional theory: taking stock and retooling” for sowing the seeds that inspired this chapter. We would also like to express our appreciation for the constructive suggestions of Patrick Haack, and our anonymous reviewer.

Citation

Steele, C.W.J., Toubiana, M. and Greenwood, R. (2019), "Why Worry? Celebrating and Reformulating “Integrative Institutionalism”", Haack, P., Sieweke, J. and Wessel, L. (Ed.) Microfoundations of Institutions (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 65B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 353-369. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B027

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