Poverty's Monument: Social Problems and Organizational Field Emergence in Historical Perspective
以19世纪美国储蓄银行作为应对贫困的组织创新为例，从历史制度主义视角提出社会问题如何塑造制度与组织变迁的三个概念性主张，适合关注制度理论、组织场域演化及社会问题交叉研究的学者。
Abstract This article draws on historical institutionalism as an approach to studying the relationship between business institutions and major social problems. Using the historical case of the emergence of savings banking as an organizational response to poverty in the nineteenth‐century United States, I develop three conceptual claims about how social problems shape the processes of institutional and organizational change. First, I show how the ‘historical framing’ of social problems shapes the processes of problematization, design, and legitimation related to institutional change. Second, I demonstrate how the dynamics of cooperation, competition, and alignment between an emerging organizational field and other fields shape the evolution of institutional responses to social problems. And finally, I illustrate how historical revisionism as a methodological approach can help management scholars re‐consider settled empirical and theoretical claims in a way that takes social problems into account.