Business and Society Research Drawing on Institutionalism: Integrating Normative and Descriptive Research on Values
梳理了企业与社会文献中基于制度主义的价值观研究,按规范性与描述性方法分类,并论证借鉴杜威实用主义和塞尔兹尼克制度主义有助于整合两者,提升理论化与实践相关性。
Business and society (B&S) scholarship that uses the theoretical perspective of institutionalism combines different research approaches to values. Within the B&S literature drawing on institutionalism, we identified and categorized the research on values according to a spectrum of normative and/or descriptive approaches (including both and neither approaches). Primarily, we focused on how the normative and descriptive approaches interrelate and integrate. We argue that drawing on John Dewey’s pragmatism and Philip Selznick’s institutionalism can help further an integrative approach, which holds great potential for advancing theorization in the B&S field while increasing its practical relevance.