Inter - Organizational Institutions

Institutional Change Institutional approaches to the study of organizations provide an active and fruitful line of (1949) inquiry into how organizations become institutions, contemporary institutional analysis asks how organizations are influenced by institutionalized rules and institutional environments-forces that operate, by definition, above and across organizations. Much research documents institutional effects on organizational practices, performance, and life chances. This work mainly focuses on the impact of the state and the professions on organizations, and on tracing the diffusion of new organizational practices and forms. While we know much about how organizations are molded by institutional forces, the sources of institutions and institutional change are relatively neglected. Brint and Karabel (1991) contend that a muscular " sociology of institutional forms " needs to be complemented by an