Suspended In Self-Spun Webs Of Significance: A Rhetorical Model Of Institutionalization And Institutionally Embedded Agency
用修辞理论重新定义制度化为论证结构的变化，以美国企业界全面质量管理实践的制度化为例，说明制度如何同时约束和赋能社会行动。
This article employs rhetorical theory to reconceptualize institutionalization as change in argument structure. As a state, institutionalization is embodied in the structure of argument used to justify a practice at a given point in time. As a process, institutionalization is modeled as changes in the structure of arguments used to justify a practice over time. We use rhetoric surrounding the institutionalization of total quality management (TQM) practices within the American business community as a case study to illustrate how conceptualizing institutionalization as changes in argument structure can help show how institutions simultaneously constrain and enable social action.