“Did You Notice That?” Theorizing Differences in the Capacity to Apprehend Institutional Contradictions
指出察觉制度矛盾（即意识到制度安排是暂时的、可改变的）比通常认为的更困难，并基于建构发展理论提出个体层面理论，解释人们察觉制度矛盾的能力差异，对嵌入性能动者、居住制度主义和战略变革研究有贡献。
Over the past decade, institutional researchers have relied extensively on the premise that institutional contradictions are key drivers of institutional instability and institutional change. In this article we argue that apprehending institutional contradictions—that is, experiencing institutional arrangements as provisional and potentially changeable upon encountering the contradictions—is more problematic than typically acknowledged. Drawing on insights from constructive developmental theory, we develop an individual-level theory that seeks to explain the differences in people’s capacity to apprehend institutional contradictions. The resulting framework proposes that there are important differences among people with respect to the nature of their investment in institutional arrangements that correspond to the differences in both blockages and facilitators of apprehension. The framework contributes important insights to the study of embedded agency and inhabited institutionalism, as well as strategic change.