Institutions and Maintenance: The Repair Work of Italian Professions
通过意大利职业协会抵制政府强制改革的案例，研究制度维护如何通过修复工作恢复被破坏的制度安排，帮助理解制度韧性的来源。
This paper contributes to extending institutional theory by theorizing institutional maintenance as a process of repair and empirically examining repair work in a professional setting. Our in-depth, longitudinal case study illustrates how Italian professions—led by two professional associations—rebuffed the decisive intervention of the Italian Government to coercively reform the professional service sector and reconstituted institutional arrangements that had been severely disrupted. The paper advances theory on the resilience of institutions by showing that maintenance repair work enables powerful incumbents to reverse change and re-establish the status quo.