Reconstructing institutional complexity in practice: A relational model of institutional work and complexity
提出了一个制度工作与复杂性的关系模型,从关系性和动态性视角解释制度逻辑的构建过程,并分析不同维度的能动性如何相互作用,帮助学者理解个体在日常实践中如何应对和重构制度复杂性。
This article develops a relational model of institutional work and complexity. This model advances current institutional debates on institutional complexity and institutional work in three ways. First, it provides a relational and dynamic perspective on institutional complexity by explaining how constellations of logics − and their degree of internal contradiction − are constructed rather than given. Second, it refines our current understanding of agency, intentionality and effort in institutional work by demonstrating how different dimensions of agency interact dynamically in the institutional work of reconstructing institutional complexity. Third, it situates institutional work in the everyday practice of individuals coping with the institutional complexities of their work. In doing so, it reconnects the construction of institutionally complex settings to the actions and interactions of the individuals who inhabit them.