Thomas J. Roulet, Lionel Paolella, C. Gabbioneta, D. Muzio
{"title":"MicroFoundations of Institutional Change in the Career Structure of UK Elite Law Firms","authors":"Thomas J. Roulet, Lionel Paolella, C. Gabbioneta, D. Muzio","doi":"10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065a025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065a025","url":null,"abstract":"The authors investigate an institutional change as the co-occurrence of deinstitutionalization and institutionalization, while accounting for its determinants at multiple levels of analysis to further our understanding of how individual characteristics aggregated at the organizational level and organizational characteristics together account for the erosion and emergence of practices within the field. The authors empirically explore this question in a multilevel dataset of UK law firms and their employees, looking in particular at how the practice of equity partnership faded away and how non-equity partnership emerged as a new practice. The results contribute to the literature on institutional change and the microfoundation of institutions.","PeriodicalId":137632,"journal":{"name":"Microfoundations of Institutions","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129958986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microfoundations and Recursive Analysis: A Mixed-Methods Framework for Language-Based Research, Computational Methods, and Theory Development","authors":"Hovig Tchalian","doi":"10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065b008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065b008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that the primary reason for the underdeveloped state of microfoundations research in language and communications studies is methodological. It asserts that the long-standing methodological division between micro and macro analyses (traditionally small-scale and large-scale, respectively) has led to their continued theoretical separation. The paper draws from Giddens’ theory of structuration and newly developed computational methods to outline an alternative, mixed-methods framework for discourse analysis that the author calls Recursive Analysis (RA). The author demonstrates the application of the RA framework through a case study of the electric vehicle industry that aligns small-scale and large-scale textual analysis to generate theoretical insights.","PeriodicalId":137632,"journal":{"name":"Microfoundations of Institutions","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127413512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Anesa, K. Chalkias, P. Jarzabkowski, A. P. Spee
{"title":"Practicing Capitals Across Fields: Extending Bourdieu to Study Inter-Field Dynamics","authors":"M. Anesa, K. Chalkias, P. Jarzabkowski, A. P. Spee","doi":"10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B010","url":null,"abstract":"This essay extends a Bourdieusian perspective on the microfoundations of institutions. Drawing on this perspective, we argue that the recursive dynamics of institutions and action orient actors towards the maintenance of distinct and contradictory practices within, rather than bridging across, different fields. We corroborate our argument with an illustration of how corporate executives strategize within the tax field compared to the philanthropy field. Specifically, we show how actors are simultaneously oriented by different capitals towards apparently contradictory strategies. Our essay provides promising avenues for future research on the microfoundations of institutions, inter-field dynamics, and critical accounting and business ethics studies.","PeriodicalId":137632,"journal":{"name":"Microfoundations of Institutions","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126136686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Situating Frames and Institutional Logics: The Social Situation as a Key Institutional MicroFoundation","authors":"S. Furnari","doi":"10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065b015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065b015","url":null,"abstract":"Research on institutional logics has highlighted the importance of social situations but has not theorized such situations in a way that takes into account their inherent richness, complexity, and unpredictability. Without a theory of social situations, the connection between logics and people’s everyday life experience is incomplete, resulting in fragile microfoundations. Building on Goffman (1974) and the institutional logics perspective, in this essay I sketch an institutional theory of social situations, distinguishing two components of these situations: situational experience and situated interactions. Situational experience is constituted by situational frames – that is, schemas by which a person can perceive others and interpret the source of their agency in a situation. Multiple situational frames are simultaneously present in any situation, offering various potentials for action. Institutional logics shape the content that situational frames take in different institutional orders, providing rules for interacting appropriately in typified situations. However, the actual interactions unfolding in a given social situation do not necessarily conform to situational frames, but rather can transform those frames in unpredictable ways through interaction rituals and frame keyings. I contrast this situated perspective with the cognitivist notion that people “activate” or re-combine pre-existing aspects of logics depending on the situation. I argue that a situated perspective better accounts for the generative and transformative potential of micro-interactions.","PeriodicalId":137632,"journal":{"name":"Microfoundations of Institutions","volume":"32 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120914280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065a028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065a028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137632,"journal":{"name":"Microfoundations of Institutions","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132600991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065b035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065b035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137632,"journal":{"name":"Microfoundations of Institutions","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123983263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Specifying the “What” and Separating the “How”: Doings, Sayings, Codes, and Artifacts as the Building Blocks of Institutions","authors":"Omar Lizardo","doi":"10.31235/osf.io/2eu34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/2eu34","url":null,"abstract":"I propose a “refurbished” object account of the building blocks of institutions. I distinguish between state theories, process theories, and object theories of institutions and institutionalization, arguing that while process accounts are an improvement over state approaches, they cannot provide a self-sufficient framework without theorizing the objects that the processes are supposed to be applied to. To achieve this goal, I build on an analytic disaggregation of the culture concept to specify the possible set of “things” that can be said to be institutionalized. I argue for an analytic distinction between “doings” (practices, habits, routines), “sayings” (vocabularies), semiotic codes, rules of the game, and artifacts as the broad classes of objects that could be subject to institutionalization processes and can thus form the “building blocks” of institutions. I conclude that process accounts need to be decoupled from object accounts, because the same processes may apply to all of these objects via distinct mechanisms, while other proposed processes only apply to a restricted set of objects.","PeriodicalId":137632,"journal":{"name":"Microfoundations of Institutions","volume":"315 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114403497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}