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1 - Introduction:

Cultural Institutionalism

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

Ronald L. Jepperson  and
John W. Meyer
By
J. Meyer  and
R. Jepperson
Ronald L. Jepperson
Affiliation:
University of Tulsa
John W. Meyer
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Summary

A new basic introduction to “sociological neoinstitutionalism,” placing the line of thought in intellectual context, and discussing the linkages of the core ideas to empirical research.

Keywords

institutionalismneoinstitutionalismsocial theoryculturesociologyAmerican sociologysocial constructionsocial phenomenology
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
 , pp. 3 - 24
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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