Flowing with the Current and Making Waves: A Model of Personal Control and Institutional Migration
基于个人控制动机，提出制度迁移理论，解释个体进入新制度环境时如何通过移植旧知识和内化新规则来重建控制感，对制度变迁和组织行为研究有参考价值。
We develop a theory of institutional migration based on the basic human motive to achieve personal control—the expectation that one’s actions will yield predictable outcomes. We propose that institutionalized action supports personal control, and that individuals migrating to a new institutional domain therefore suffer a personal control deficit. Institutional migrants are hence motivated to reestablish personal control through dual pathways: transposition of their previously acquired institutional knowledge (primary control) and internalization of the institutional rules of their new environments (secondary control). These pathways are moderated by a set of individual and institutional characteristics, respectively. A personal control perspective thus illuminates a crucial moment in institutional dynamics and augments the psychological grounding of institutional accounts.