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trashing new institutionalism bleg

I’m trying to collect major (and minor) critiques of either new institutionalism. So far, I’ve got Perrow ’86, Kraatz/Zajac ’96, Hirsch ’97, Mizruchi et al (not quite a critique), Herrigal’s 2005 discussion of recent political science institutionalism in Socio-economic Review, and my own critique of Fligstein’s Architecture on the Journal of Institutional Economics.

What else? What am I missing?

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Written by fabiorojas

November 19, 2012 at 9:58 pm

Posted in fabio, Institutions

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  1. Stinchcombe’s ARS article.

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    Kieran

    November 19, 2012 at 10:19 pm

  2. Other possibilities …

    Colomy, Paul. 1998. “Neofunctionalism and Neoinstitutionalism: Human Agency and Interest in Institutional Change.” Sociological Forum 13:265-300.
    Hallett, Tim and Marc Ventresca. 2006. “Inhabited Institutions: Social Interactions and Organizational Forms in Gouldner’s Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy.” Theory and Society 35:213-236.
    Barley, Stephen R. 2008. “Coalface Institutionalism.” Pp. 491-518 in The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, edited by R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, K. Sahlin-Anderson, and R. Suddaby. Los Angeles: Sage.

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    Michael

    November 19, 2012 at 11:22 pm

  3. Read pages 697-99 for a pungent screed (but don’t tell Paul and Woody): http://orm.sagepub.com/content/13/4/690.full.pdf+html

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    jerrydavisumich

    November 19, 2012 at 11:28 pm

  4. Jerry, very pungent indeed. Thanks for the link.

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    fabiorojas

    November 20, 2012 at 3:42 am

  5. Kostova, Roth & Dacin (2008) AMR

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    ivan

    November 20, 2012 at 9:22 am

  6. Hirsch/Lounsbury 1997, American Behavioral Scientist
    Phillips/Malhotra 2008 SAGE handbook of organizational institutionalism

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    Another paper

    November 20, 2012 at 9:55 am

  7. […] finished writing a brief bibliography on institutionalism, which includes a section on the critics that I blegged about earlier. What did I learn from reading the critics? Well, the critics come in a few […]

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