This article draws on ethnographic data from a field leading university licensing office to document and explain a key step in the process of institutionalization, the abstraction of standardized rules and procedures from idiosyncratic efforts to collectively resolve pressing problems. I present and analyze cases where solutions to complicated quandaries become abstract bits of professional kno...

The absence of typical caregiving, including warm and responsive parenting, has been suggested to significantly affect the young child's ability to form adaptive relationships with adults and peers. The Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), a randomized controlled trial of foster/family care for young children with a history of institutionalization has provided the context to assess thes...

The adoption of bioregionalism by institutions that are instrumental in river basin management has significant potential to resolve complex water resource management problems. The Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) in England provides an example of how localized bioregional institutionalization of adaptive comanagement, consensus decision making, local participation, indigenous technical and social...

This research applies contributions from the social sciences to examine how organizations adapt information systems in a project team setting. Its main concern is to study the set of events and actions implicated in the institutionalization of an information system. The motivation for this research has been to address the following questions: why are well designed information systems so often n...

This paper contributes to research on routine learning based on internal change dynamics of routines. We define routine learning as a social learning process involving a multitude of actors and apply a performative routine model to analyze impacts of the institutionalization of routines within an organization on the occurrence of explorative routine learning. From an institutional perspective, ...

Purpose Once introduced and conceptualized as a factor that causes erosion decay of social institutions subsequent deinstitutionalization, the notion entropy is at odds with predictions institutional isomorphism seems to directly contradict tendency toward ever-increasing institutionalization. The purpose this paper offer resolution theoretical inconsistency by revisiting meaning reconceptualiz...

The objective of this article is to evaluate the level of institutionalization of a community action program targeting licensed premises in Stockholm. Five key factors were identified for institutionalization: adoption, sustainability, key leader support, structural changes, and compliance. A scale was developed to assess the strength of each factor. The results indicate a high degree of instit...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between neuropsychiatric symptoms and risk of institutionalization and death. DESIGN Analysis of longitudinal data. SETTING The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS). PARTICIPANTS Five hundred thirty-seven adults aged 71 and older with cognitive impairment drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). MEASUREMENTS Neuropsychiatric sympto...