Institutional Continuity and the Dutch Construction Industry Fiddle
研究了荷兰建筑业在预咨询制度被欧盟宣布非法后仍延续九年的机制，发现制度延续源于实践中的社会机制，该机制修复或掩盖矛盾从而阻止变革。
The article deals with the question of how institutional continuity is realized. It presents an analysis of the continuation of the institution of pre-consultation in the Dutch construction industry over a period of nine years, after this was declared illegal as a consequence of European Union regulations. The analysis utilizes a structuration-based practice approach to institutionalization. The findings suggest that institutional continuity is a matter of a social mechanism which emerges as a consequence of the particular way in which practices are enacted, and which has the effect of repairing and/or concealing contradiction so that change is not initiated.