The purpose of this study is to analyze the conceptual and theoretical relations between institutional analysis and organizational studies. The study advances from the implicit assumption that institutional analysis research must recognize and explore the multiple flows of theoretical development with organizational studies. The method use is based on meta cognition and analysis of the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical literature review. It is concluded that the institutional analysis of organizational studies is in its infancy and requires still further research.
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The notion of institution considers the comprehensive and more extended definition including the state, organizations, language, money, etc. and more bounded strengthen in conceptual scheme (Chavance, 2012). Organizational interpretation of institutions by Commons (1934) differentiating organizations as the players and institutions as the rules of the game (North, 1990). Institutional studies treat as actors both individuals and organizations being adapted as both institutional complexity and multiplicity. Institutional complexity is related to social and environmental entrepreneurship connected to organizations. Environmental changes include institutional change to challenge for organizational integrity.
Institutional theorization is a process in organizational studies and specific areas such as the management innovation, entrepreneurship (Birkinshaw, Hamel, & Mol, 2008, Hwang & Powell, 2005; Svejenova, Mazza, & Planellas, 2007). Institutional theory perspectives have been reviewed such as the institutional entrepreneurism, decoupling, hybrid organizational forms (Battilana, Leca, & Boxenbaum, 2009; Bromley & Powell, 2012; Battilana & Lee, 2014), creation of vocabularies and practices (Loewenstein, Ocasio, & Jones, 2012).
Institutional complexity contributes to research in strategy and institutional logics in organizations opening opportunities, proposing dialogue with mature theories of strategy, and bringing elements common to the strategy in relation to institutional logics. Strategic and structural changes should address institutional complexity with an emphasis on organizational hybrids and ambidexterity translated to field-level changes as the hybridization logics (Smets et al., 2012; York et al., 2016).
In institutional research, institutional logics is a perspective that fully integrates persons into institutions and organizations more than other micro-foundations perspectives that have conceptual and normative limitations without any distinction between actors and people. The existing research on institutions in organizational studies elides the affective institutional theory dimensions focusing on the schematic and structural dimensions rather than on the micro-level interactions and individual experiences, linked to institutional theory in which individuals are cultural dopes whose actions and thoughts are considered determined by institutions in which are embedded (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006).
Research on an institutional perspective that integrates persons and organizations in institutions have implications for theoretical approaches, normative perspectives and methods aimed to conceptualize the inhabited institutional and organizational perspectives. Ethnography and video ethnography are an innovative methodology to enable analysis of organizational life (Alvesson & Deetz, 2000; Smets et al., 2014),
Research on institutional analysis must recognize and explore the multiple flows of theoretical development and the implicit assumptions (Bruton et al., 2010). Institutional analysis focus on the links between affect and institutions, and the entwinement of cognition, imagination, and affect. Law and society research promises new directions such as the moral dimensions in institutional and organizational change (Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, & Tipton, 1991; Selznick, 1992; Wolfe, 1989).
Research in institutional theories provide conceptual frameworks for integration emotions into institutional analysis. Research in institutional and organizational change is the analysis of cultural and structural mechanisms through which group and individual levels changes at the organizational level become institutionalized (Dee & Leišyte, 2016). Research questions are inspired by the role of emotions in institutional processes that embed change agency and power using the theorization of emotions in the institutional and organizational fabric. Institutions are at the core of regimes which are constituent of dominant practices of organizations, moderation, implementation, and enforcement.