The Recursive Nature of Institutional Change
借鉴年鉴学派的历史研究方法，提出制度变迁的递归模型，探讨关键事件如何影响制度逻辑的不同维度，并导致组织做出从脱耦到逻辑根本转变的选择，进而引发宏观层面的递归变化。
In this essay, we propose a recursive model of institutional change building on the Annales School, one of the 20th century’s most influential streams of historical research. Our model builds upon three concepts from the Annales—mentalities, levels of time, and critical events—to explore how critical events affect different dimensions of institutional logics and exert short- or long-range influences. On these bases, organizations make choices, from decoupling to radical shifts in logics, leading to severe institutional changes that become the matter of history. As much as organizations are influenced by events and the prevalent institutional logics, their choices trigger macro-level changes in a recursive manner. More broadly, we comment on how fruitful is our approach to historicize organization studies.