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1、ApproachingAdulthood:TheMaturingofInstitutionalTheoryAuthor(s):W.RichardScottSource:TheoryandSociety,Vol.37,No.5,SpecialIssueonTheorizingInstitutions:CurrentApproachesandDebates(Oct.,2008),pp.427-442Publishedby:SpringerStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40345595.Accessed
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4、or.orgThiscontentdownloadedfrom113.108.133.58onThu,12Dec201323:29:44PMAllusesubjecttoJSTORTermsandConditionsTheorSoc(2008)37:427-442DOI10.1007/s11186-008-9067-zApproachingadulthood:thematuringofinstitutionaltheoryW.RichardScottPublishedonline:11June2008€)SpringerScience+Bus
5、inessMediaB.V.2008AbstractIsummarizesevengeneraltrendsintheinstitutionalanalysisoforganizationswhichIviewasconstructiveandprovideevidenceofprogressinthedevelopmentofthisperspective.Iemphasizecorrectionsinearlytheoreticallimitationsaswellasimprovementsintheuseofempiricalindi
6、catorsandanexpansionofthetypesoforganizationsincludedandissuesaddressedbyinstitutionaltheorists.Itisnowmorethan30yearssinceabrashnewtheoreticalperspectiveinvadedorganizationalsociology.1Neo-institutionalargumentswerefirstformulatedbyJohnMeyerandcolleagues,beginningintheyear
7、1977(MeyerandRowan1977;Meyeretal.1978;Meyeretal.1981;Zucker1977;forareviewemphasizingMeyer'scontribution,seeJepperson2002).Thegeneralargumentadvancedwasthatformalorganizationalstructurereflectednotsimplytechnologicalimperatives(LawrenceandLorsch1967;Thompson1967/2003)andres
8、ourcedependencies(Pfeffer1972;PfefferandSalancik1978)but"institutional"forces,vagu
