The Valuable, the Constitutive, and the Energetic: Exploring the impact and importance of studying emotions and institutions
这篇导言探讨了情感在制度生活中的作用，指出过去新制度理论忽视了情感，并强调情感是有价值的、构成制度的和充满活力的，为未来研究提供了方向。
Emotions shape our lives and experiences as institutional actors, yet neo-institutional theorizing has paid scant attention to them until recently. In this introduction to the Special Themed Section, we explore why this blind spot has existed in past theorizing and aim to push scholarship further to elucidate the role that emotions play in institutional life. Drawing insights from the emerging literature and the four papers in this issue, we emphasize specific themes of interest for research on emotions and institutions. Specifically, we highlight the need for a focus on the role of emotions as: value-laden, constitutive of institutions, and energetic. We argue that foregrounding emotions promises a myriad of opportunities for future work and promises rich theoretical rewards.