Socio-Organizational Structure and the Implications Between Institutional Change and Institutionalization

Socio-Organizational Structure and the Implications Between Institutional Change and Institutionalization

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8332-9.ch005
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Abstract

This study has the purpose of analyzing the implications between the social structure and the institutional logics. It begins with the assumption that the functionalist differentiation theory can identify, analyze, and redefine the problems and objects of study in social structure and institutional logics fulfill crucial functions in institutions. The method used is the meta-cognitive and analytical descriptive and reflective based on the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical literature review. The study concludes that the implications of the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical relationships between social structure and institutional logics are crucial functions and spheres of institutions in societies, although they are not fully compatible, integrated, contrasting institutions, and reproducing institutional dysfunctions and paradoxes.
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Institutional Change

Institutional change is the process of creating new institutions, replacing, and adjusting existing ones to changing social and bio-physical conditions (Zikos, 2020). The analysis of the conditions of change institutions are facilitated by the institutionalism theoretical framework aimed to explain institutional change (Campbell, 2004, 1998). Institutional change grounds on new institutions or adapting the existent ones to respond to crisis, although is questionable its legitimization, which in turn may legitimize the emergence of rules contradicting the institutions of crisis response (Vatn, 2005, 2015).

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