The Work of the Symbolic in Institutional Processes: Translations of Rational Myths in Israeli High Tech
以千年前后以色列高科技话语为例，研究制度化如何作为翻译过程，揭示理性神话在不同时间和层面被重构，受物质波动和地方制度动态影响。
Using the discourse of high tech in Israel around the millennium as a case study, I explore institutionalization as translation. Whereas the meanings attached to high tech were derived from broad cultural frameworks, they were reconstructed in the context of high tech. Differences in construction were manifested at two times and at two levels: before the high-tech economic bubble and after it, and at the societal and organizational field levels. Thus, institutionalization involves the translation of generic rational myths into specific ones, which change over time in relation to material fluctuations and depend on the dynamics of local institutional spheres.