Mind the gap! Building bridges between institutional work and critical sensemaking

IF 2.7 4区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Organizational Change Management Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI:10.1108/jocm-06-2023-0234

Albert James Mills, Päivi Eriksson, Eeva Aromaa, Outi-Maaria Palo-Oja

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Purpose The purpose of this article is to address research gaps relating to agency and institutionalism in new institutional theory (NIT) and institutional work (IW) and use the critical sensemaking (CSM) approach to bridge the debates around agency, especially on issues of language and discourse, actor network theory (ANT) and history. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual analysis of the literature is performed to discuss issues of agency in IW and CSM in organizations, and examples of empirical studies are used to illustrate connectivity, contrast and fusion. Findings The analysis illustrates points of distance (rather than disconnect), but most importantly, connectivity and the potential for further developments between the literature on IW and CSM. Social implications Discussion around new possibilities to focus on agency has the potential to contribute to humanist thinking about the (agentic) character of organizations and the potential for social change. Originality/value The article contributes to the discussion of agency in the organization through a starting point (i.e. CSM) outside of NIT.

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小心空隙!在机构工作和批判性意义之间建立桥梁

本文的目的是解决新制度理论(NIT)和制度工作(IW)中与代理和制度主义有关的研究差距，并使用关键意义建构(CSM)方法来弥合围绕代理的争论，特别是在语言和话语、行动者网络理论(ANT)和历史问题上。设计/方法/方法对文献进行概念分析，讨论组织中IW和CSM中的代理问题，并使用实证研究的例子来说明连通性，对比和融合。研究结果分析表明了IW和CSM文献之间的距离(而不是脱节)，但最重要的是，它们之间的连通性和进一步发展的潜力。围绕关注能动性的新可能性的讨论有可能有助于对组织(能动性)特征和社会变革潜力的人文主义思考。原创性/价值本文通过NIT之外的起点(即CSM)对组织中的代理进行了讨论。

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Journal of Organizational Change Management MANAGEMENT-

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5.80

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3.60%

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期刊介绍： ■Adapting strategic planning to the need for change ■Leadership research ■Responsibility for change implementation and follow-through ■The psychology of change and its effect on the workforce ■TQM - will it work in your organization? Successful organizations respond intelligently to factors which precipitate change. Economic climates, political trends, changes in consumer demands, management policy or structure, employment levels and financial resources - all these elements are constantly at play to ensure that organizations clinging on to static structures will ultimately lose out. But change is a dynamic and alarming thing - this journal addresses how to manage it positively.