Smets, Michael and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2013). Reconstructing institutional complexity in practice:a relational model of institutional work and complexity. Human Relations, 66 (10), pp. 1279-1309.
Abstract
This article develops a relational model of institutional work and complexity. This model advances current institutional debates on institutional complexity and institutional work in three ways. First, it provides a relational and dynamic perspective on institutional complexity by explaining how constellations of logics - and their degree of internal contradiction - are constructed rather than given. Second, it refines our current understanding of agency, intentionality and effort in institutional work by demonstrating how different dimensions of agency interact dynamically in the institutional work of reconstructing institutional complexity. Third, it situates institutional work in the everyday practice of individuals coping with the institutional complexities of their work. In doing so, it reconnects the construction of institutionally complex settings to the actions and interactions of the individuals who inhabit them.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726712471407 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | agency,global law firms,intentionality,practice theory,professional service firms,relationality,Management of Technology and Innovation,Strategy and Management,General Social Sciences,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) |
Publication ISSN: | 1741-282X |
Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2024 11:27 |
Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2015 10:30 |
Full Text Link: |
http://hum.sage ... tent/66/10/1279 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2013-10 |
Published Online Date: | 2013-03-19 |
Authors: |
Smets, Michael
Jarzabkowski, Paula |