Microfoundations of Institutions.

Intro -- Microfoundations of Institutions -- Contents -- Lists of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- About the Contributors -- Section 1: Prologue -- What are MicroFoundations? Why and How to Study Them? -- What are Micro-Foundations? -- Why Study Micro-Foundations? -- How to Study Micro-Foundations? -- Micro-Foundations of Institutional Theory, Methods, and Research -- References -- Section 2: Introduction -- Microfoundations and Multi-Level Research on Institutions -- Introduction -- What are Microfoundations of Institutions? -- Perspectives on Microfoundations -- Cognitive Perspective -- Communicative Perspective -- Behavioral Perspective -- Conceptions of Microfoundations -- Microfoundations as Agency -- Microfoundations as Levels -- Microfoundations as Mechanisms -- Configurations of Microfoundational Research -- Should We Foreground Levels of Analysis? -- Why Do We Need Microfoundations of Institutions? -- How Can We Study Microfoundations of Institutions? -- Mixed Methods -- Multi-level Analysis -- Experiments -- Time for Retooling -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 3: Cognitive Perspective On Microfoundations -- Chapter 1: Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Institutional Contestation: Exploring Category Legitimation Across Domains of Institutional Action -- Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- What Is "Micro" in Organizational Research? -- Category Legitimacy -- Data and Methods -- Research Design -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Findings -- Historical Background -- U-brew Category Legitimation in Ontario -- Emergence of Opposition -- Legitimation in the Legal Domain -- Legitimation in the Administrative Domain -- Legitimation in the Public Domain -- Challenges of Collective Action -- Discursive Competition -- U-brew Category Legitimation in British Columbia (BC) -- Legitimation in the Legal Domain.

Legitimation in the Public Domain -- Legitimation in the Administrative Domain -- Legitimation in Other Provinces -- Discussion and Theory Development -- Domains of Institutional Action -- Public Domain -- The Administrative Domain -- Legal Domain -- Domain Interactions -- Cross-level Effects in the Legitimation Process -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: When Do Market Intermediaries Sanction Categorical Deviation? The Role of Expertise, Identity, and Competition -- Market Intermediaries as Experts -- Expert and Novice Intermediaries -- The More Expert the Intermediaries, the Finer Their Category Distinctions -- More Expert Intermediaries Make More Sense Out of Novelty -- Inhibitor 1: Identity -- Inhibitor 2: Competition -- Discussion -- Market Intermediaries as Ambiguous Gatekeepers -- Expert Market Intermediaries, the Evolution of Category Systems, and Institutional Change -- Boundary Conditions and Extensions -- References -- Chapter 3: "The HR Generalist is Dead": A Phenomenological Perspective on Decoupling -- Introduction -- Experts and Decoupling -- Life-World, Realities, and Relevances -- Methodology -- "The HR Generalist is Dead" -- Concluding Discussion -- References -- Chapter 4: Why Do Individuals Perceive and Respond to the Same Institutional Demands Differently? On the Cognitive Structural Underpinnings of Institutional Complexity -- A Cognitive Structural Perspective on Institutional Complexity -- Representations of the External Environment: Differentiation and Integration -- Representations of Self: Self-Pluralism and Self-Unity -- Cognitive Complexity and Responses to Multiple Logics -- High Differentiation and High Integration: Embracing Complexity -- High Self-pluralism and High Self-unity (Agile Core): Synthesis -- High Self-pluralism and Low Self-unity (Fragmented Core): Fragile Synthesis.

Low Self-pluralism and High Self-unity (Rigid Core): Selective Coupling -- High Differentiation and Low Integration: Buffering Complexity -- High Self-pluralism and High Self-unity: Compromise -- High Self-pluralism and Low Self-unity: Compartmentalization -- Low Self-pluralism and High Self-unity: Decoupling -- Low Differentiation and Low Integration: Struggling with Complexity -- High Self-pluralism and High Self-unity: Negotiation -- High Self-pluralism and Low Self-unity: Situational Compliance -- Low Self-pluralism and High Self-unity: Defiance -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Implications for Future Research -- Extending the Notion of Self-Pluralism -- Experimental Investigation of Micro-level Institutional Processes -- The Interplay Between Cognition and Emotions -- Exploring the Antecedents and Development of Cognitive Complexity -- References -- Chapter 5: The Generativity of Collective Identity: Identity Movements as Mechanisms for New Institutions -- Social Movements and Identity -- Identity Movements -- From Identity Movements to Institutions -- Lifestyle Movements -- The Dynamics of Lifestyle Movements: An Illustration from Martha Stewart Living -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 6: Embodied and Reflexive Agency in Institutional Fields: An Integrative Neo-Institutional Perspective of Institutional Change -- Unpacking the Relationship Between Cognition and Institutional Change -- The Dual Internalization of Institutions -- Two Kinds of Taken-for-Grantedness -- Discursive Consciousness and the Internalization of Institutions -- Practical Consciousness and the Internalization of Institutions -- Institutional Fields and Modes of Consciousness -- Institutional Change and Discursive Consciousness -- Institutional Modification -- Institutional Contestation -- Institutional Change and Practical Consciousness -- Institutional Evolution.

Institutional Revolution -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 7: How Do Institutions Take Root at the Individual Level? -- Institutions at the Individual Level: The Role of Self-Identity -- Method -- The Case: Yoga as an Institutional Context -- Data Collection -- Analytical Procedures -- Comparing Yogic Meanings across Different Levels of Depth to Explore How Deeply Have Yoga Trickled Down into Individuals' Identity Stories -- Widening the Scope to Explore How Important Is Yoga as a Facet of Individuals' Self-identity -- Identity Work: Assimilating Yogic Meanings into One's Self-Concept -- Outcomes of Identity Work: Various Representations of Institutional Meanings at the Individual Level -- Tracing the Process of Identity Work as Institutional Work -- Depth -- Importance -- Point of Entrance -- Volume -- Conclusions and Discussion -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 8: Sensegiving and Sensemaking of Highly Disruptive Issues: Animal Rights Experienced Through PETA YouTube Videos -- Introduction -- Sensemaking of Institutions and the Role of Emotions -- Sensegiving of Highly Disruptive Issues -- Sensemaking of Highly Disruptive Issues as Emotion-laden Events -- Methods -- Research Context -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Findings: Sensemaking of Highly Disruptive Issues -- Positive Engaged Sensemaking -- Sensegiving Account -- Sensemaking Mechanisms -- Positive Superficial Sensemaking -- Sensegiving Account -- Sensemaking Mechanisms -- Contested Sensemaking -- Sensegiving Account -- Sensemaking Mechanisms -- Ineffective Sensemaking -- Sensegiving Account -- Sensemaking Mechanisms -- Discussion -- Contribution to the Microfoundations of Institutions -- Contribution to Sensemaking -- Limitations and Boundary Conditions -- References.

Chapter 9: Connecting the Tree to the Rainforest: Examining the Microfoundations of Institutions with Cultural Consensus Theory -- Introduction -- Cultural Consensus Theory -- CCT Approach to Microfoundations -- Microfoundations of ECO Agency -- Theory and Hypotheses -- Survey Design and Sample -- Methods -- Congruence to Field-wide Consensus -- Congruence to Subgroup Consensus -- Direct Interaction with CEO -- Organization's Implementation of Discretionary Ethics Practices -- Legal Educational and Professional Background -- Control Variables -- Results -- Results for Consensus Content -- Results for Micro-level Factors Influencing Field-wide Cultural Congruence -- Results for Micro-level Factors Influencing Subcultural Congruence -- Discussion of Results -- Expanding Microfoundational Research with CCT -- Sample Frame and Macro-level of Analysis -- Questionnaire Content -- Microfoundational Variables -- Stage of Institutionalization -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Specifying the "What" and Separating the "How": Doings, Sayings, Codes, and Artifacts as the Building Blocks of Institutions -- Beyond the "How" and the "That" -- Defining Institutions and Institutionalization -- State Approaches -- Process Approaches -- Object Approaches -- Can We Have an Object-Neutral Account of Institutions? -- A Refurbished Object Account of Institutions -- What Gets Institutionalized? -- Artifacts and Material Technologies -- Rules and Semiotic Codes -- Sayings and Vocabularies in Fields -- Practices and Organizational Routines -- Advantages of the Proposed Scheme -- Personal Culture (and thus People) Is Central to Institutions -- Artifacts (and thus Technologies and Material Culture) Is Central to Institutions -- Specifying the Objects Helps Clarify State Accounts -- Specifying the Objects Helps Clarify Process Accounts.

Specifying the Objects Helps to Discover New Object/Process Links.

The notion of microfoundations has received growing interest in neo-institutional theory along with an increasing interest in microfoundational research in disciplines such as strategic management and organizational economics.

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