On Action, Embeddedness, and Institutional Change
文章区分了结构对个体和社会层面的行动约束，提出行动源于行动者通过不同能动类型与结构互动，并论证了行动与结构在时间中相互塑造的历时性理解对研究制度变迁最有效。
The article starts by discussing competing interpretations of actors’ embeddedness in structure. To do so, it distinguishes between constraints on action imposed by structure at the individual and social level, and renders action as resulting from how actors engage with such forms of structure through different types of agency. The article goes on to argue that a diachronic understanding of the mutual constitution of actions and structure, whereby they are relatively autonomous at a given moment while shaping each other over time, is the most fruitful for studying institutional change.