Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises
研究物质对象如何通过呈现而非解决制度价值的神秘性来维持制度逻辑，以耶稣会《神操》一书为例，揭示神秘性如何使制度适应并延续数百年。
Previous researchers have argued that material objects reproduce institutional logics on the basis of their durability, immutability and mobility. In this paper we analyse material objects that secure logics not because they reveal meanings and significations, but because they allow individuals and groups to confront the mystery of institutional values. Drawing on extensive historical sources, we analyse a small material object, a book entitled The Spiritual Exercises, and investigate the institutionalization of a practice for discovering what cannot be rendered material, the ineffable mystery of God’s will, as key component of the Jesuit beliefs system. We argue that religious logics require objects that present, rather than resolve, the mystery of institutional values. We extend the literature on institutional logics by considering how mystery enables institutions and their logics to embrace difference, adapt and endure for centuries. Our paper shows that institutional values and goods are ontologically mysterious no-things, ready to be interrogated through objects and procedural logics.