Institutional Voids and Organization Studies: Towards an epistemological rupture
批判组织研究中用“制度空白”描述非西方情境的做法，指出该概念存在概念拉伸和种族中心偏见，呼吁通过认识论断裂实现去殖民化，促进本土理论发展。
In this essay, we critique the usage of the term ‘institutional void’ to characterize non-Western contexts in organizational studies. We explore how ‘conceptual stretching’ of institutional voids – specifically, the theoretical and geographic expansion of the concept – has led not only to poor construct clarity, but also pejorative labelling of non-Western countries. We argue that research using this term perpetuates an ethnocentric bias by deifying market development and overlooking the richness and power of informal and non-market institutions in shaping local economic activity. We call for an ‘epistemological rupture’ to decolonize organizational scholarship in non-Western settings and facilitate contextually grounded research approaches that allow for more indigenous theorization.