The Recursive Nature of Institutional Change

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Contextual “Readiness” for Institutional Work. A Study of the Fight Against Corruption in Brazil

“…Contextual influences are often acknowledged but tend to be bracketed as simply as enabling conditions for agentic activities. Even more broadly speaking, organizational theories in generalincluding (neo)institutional theorytend to ignore the historicity of institutional processes and how different historical constituents varyingly influence institutional dimensions (Clemente, Durand & Roulet, 2016). precipitating factors or enabling conditions for agentic activities.…”

Footnotes to organizational competitiveness

“…Institutional theory, especially historical institutional perspective, focuses on impact of formal and informal social rules of the game (North, 2005) on behavior of individual agents. Institutionalism's key contributions to economics and management lies in its examinations of the lasting role and impact of institutions and institutional fields on organizational actions as the crucial factor in the translation of macro-and micro-level processes into legitimized outcomes (Clemente, Durand, & Roulet, 2017). Institutions can have beneficial or inertial effects on organizational competitiveness that can be substantial.…”

Reading the future : constructing low-carbon imaginaries in urban institutions

“…It also informs Ricoeur's view of history and interpretation in which understanding is achieved through a constant dialectic between past and future, experience and expectation, 'animated by a will for encounter as much as by a will for explanation' (Ricoeur, 1965, p. 29). Clemente, Durand and Roulet (2017) show how a similar historical understanding can be applied to the development of institutional logics. Giddens (1984, p. 362) describes his structuration theory, which has influenced transition theorists and institutional scholars, as an elaboration of Braudel's 'dialogue between structure and conjuncture'.…”

“…The interpretive tradition in institutional theory similarly suggests a recursive interplay between logics and events (Clemente, Durand, & Roulet, 2017); critical events 'raise questions about the value or appropriateness of a logic' (p. 24), exposing conflicts and contradictions. Such conflicts may be addressed and resolved through praxis, the practical compromises and dialectics of everyday institutional life (Seo & Creed, 2002) or through the eventual adoption of a transformative logic that melds and overwrites prior logics (Battilana & Dorado, 2010;DeJordy et al, 2014).…”

“…Studies of transition arenas, whether purposive as in the Dutch experiments or latent as identified in this research, could focus on the degree and impact of institutional change and inform transition planners of the likely effects of their proposals through a deeper understanding of the interpretive processes at work at an institutional scale. In particular, research could examine 'switchings' (Godart & White, 2010;Clemente, Durand, & Roulet, 2017) or crossing points between different logics and how actors move in practice between logics. Studies could focus on how and why actors might switch from a dominant logic towards an insurgent environmental logic.…”