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Elšik, Wolfgang. "Zur Legitimationsfunktion neuer Produktions- und Organisationskonzepte für das Personalmanagement." German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung 10, no. 4 (November 1996): 331–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/239700229601000402.
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Im Zusammenhang mit Konzepten wie Lean Management. Total Quality Management oder Business Process Reengineering werden personalwirtschaftliche Fragen in der Regel aus einer Implementierungsperspektive gestellt und diskutiert. Der vorliegende Beitrag kehrt diese Perspektive um und fragt, welche Funktion diese Produktions- und Organisationskonzepte im Hinblick auf die Legitimität des Personalmanagements erfüllen können. Auf der Basis des organisationstheoretischen Neo-Institutionalismus und der Diskussion zur organisationalen Legitimität wird argumentiert, daß diese Managementkonzepte Rationalitätsmythen darstellen, welche dem vorwiegend im mehrdeutigen, symbolischen Kontext agierenden Personalmanagement zur Schaffung und Bewahrung seiner erforderlichen Legitimität dienen können.
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Hösl, Maximilian, and Ronja Kniep. "Auf den Spuren eines Politikfeldes: Die Institutionalisierung von Internetpolitik in der Ministerialverwaltung." Berliner Journal für Soziologie 29, no. 3-4 (December 2019): 207–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11609-020-00397-4.
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Zusammenfassung Neue Politikfelder entstehen auch in alten Institutionen. Der Beitrag zeichnet am Beispiel der Internetpolitik in Deutschland die Institutionalisierung eines Politikfeldes nach. Auf der Grundlage einer Kombination von soziologischer Feldtheorie und diskursivem Institutionalismus und gestützt auf Organigramm-Historien, Interviews mit Ministerialbeamten und Behördenpublikationen nimmt er die Entstehung von internetpolitischen Abteilungen in zwei Ministerien in den Blick: dem Wirtschaftsministerium und dem Innenministerium. Der Aufbau von Abteilungen für Internetpolitik ist zugleich eine Form von Diskursinstitutionalisierung und eine Positionierung der Ministerien im Politikfeld, die sich um die Etablierung und Auslegung neuer gemeinwohlrelevanter Schutzgüter dreht. Neben der Wirtschaft und der nationalen Sicherheit tritt nun auch das Internet als Schutzgut hervor, das von den Ministerien im Kontext der bereits bestehenden Schutzgüter semantisch unterschiedlich, jedoch aufbauorganisatorisch ähnlich ausgelegt und als partiell autonomes Politikfeld institutionalisiert wird.
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Münch, Richard. "Andrea Maurer und Michael Schmid (Hg.): Neuer Institutionalismus. Zur soziologischen Erklärung von Organisation, Moral und Vertrauen." KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 55, no. 4 (December 2003): 796–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11577-003-0123-4.
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Lhotta, Roland. "Der antiliberale Kern des neuen Institutionalismus in der Politikwissenschaft: Überlegungen zum aktuellen Erscheinungsbild der Disziplin." Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 16, no. 1 (2006): 7–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/1430-6387-2006-1-7.
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Wing, John. "Comment on Institutionalism and Schizophrenia 30 Years On." British Journal of Psychiatry 160, no. 2 (February 1992): 241–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s0007125000035649.
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George Brown and I would like to congratulate David Curson and his colleagues on the conception and execution of this survey, but hope they are wrong in thinking that there can never be another such exercise. We are grateful to them and to the Editor for allowing us a brief preliminary comment. We have been sufficiently intrigued to want to go back to our data for new analyses, but this means reconstituting the original data base and will take some time.
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Emmenegger, Patrick. "Agency in historical institutionalism: Coalitional work in the creation, maintenance, and change of institutions." Theory and Society 50, no. 4 (January 27, 2021): 607–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11186-021-09433-5.
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AbstractInstitutionalism gives priority to structure over agency. Yet institutions have never developed and operated without the intervention of interested groups. This paper develops a conceptual framework for the role of agency in historical institutionalism. Based on recent contributions following the coalitional turn and drawing on insights from sociological institutionalism, it argues that agency plays a key role in the creation and maintenance of social coalitions that stabilize but also challenge institutions. Without such agency, no coalition can be created, maintained, or changed. Similarly, without a supporting coalition, no contested institution can survive. Yet, due to collective action problems, such coalitional work is challenging. This coalitional perspective offers a robust role for agency in historical institutionalism, but it also explains why institutions remain stable despite agency. In addition, this paper forwards several portable propositions that allow for the identification of who is likely to develop agency and what these actors do.
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Ahrens, Petra. "Gender Mainstreaming im Europäischen Parlament: Geschichte, Institutionalisierung, Hindernisse." GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft 13, no. 1-2021 (March 15, 2021): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i1.02.
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Das Europäische Parlament (EP) hat sich als eines der wenigen Parlamente weltweit seit 2003 in insgesamt sechs Entschließungen zur Umsetzung von Gender Mainstreaming (GM) verpflichtet. Ausgehend von dem Ansatz des Feministischen Institutionalismus analysiert dieser Beitrag chronologisch die potenzielle Institutionalisierung von GM und fragt, inwieweit sich neue Regeln und Normen in bestehende formale und informelle Regeln einflechten lassen. Hierfür werden zentrale EP-Dokumente für den Zeitraum 2003 bis 2019 sowie leitfadengestützte Interviews mit MEPs verschiedener Fraktionen und EP-Beschäftigten aus 2019 und 2020 analysiert. Insgesamt kann von einer GM-Institutionalisierung gesprochen werden, wenn sie auch heterogen verläuft.
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Rotar, Nataliia. "New Institutionalism in the system of theoretical and methodological foundations of political science." Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, no. 39 (June 16, 2019): 136–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/mhpi2019.39.136-146.
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The article analyzes the place and role of New Institutionalism in the system of theoretical and methodological foundations of political science. It is proved that the limitations of any science by the methodology leads to the fact that a significant number of problems, the study of which does not fit into the rigid framework of the scientific method, do not attract the attention of researchers. The conclusions note that in political science there does not exist and never existed a definite universal methodology, the general principles of which would be equally understood and applied by all researchers studying politics and which would guarantee the necessary, objective and universal knowledge for the sphere of politics. Those methodological approaches that have been used in political science since the 19th century correspond, first of all, to the subject and objectives of cognition of politics, which are dynamically changing and will change depending on changes in political reality. Therefore, the complex of methodological approaches that has been formed today is not exhaustive, and the methodology of New Institutionalism cannot be designated as universal. Most of the methodological approaches used today in political science are borrowed from other sciences, with the exception of the neo-institutionalism methodology, the basic principles of which were not adapted, but formed as a set of methods and theories for studying political. The methodological foundations of political science indicate its dependence, like any other science, on the philosophical models of cognition characteristic of a particular historical time. Initially, the development of the methodology of political science was influenced not only by the subject and purpose of the study, but also by the prospects for the practical use of the results obtained using certain methodologies and their socio and cultural purposes.
Keywords: political science, methodology of political science, theory of political science, New Institutionalism.
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Béland, Daniel, and Alex Waddan. "Ideen und sozialpolitischer Wandel. Konzeptionelle Überlegungen am Beispiel der USA." Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 57, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 463–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zsr-2011-0406.
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Dieser Artikel stellt einen Beitrag zur laufenden Debatte über den möglichen Ursprung und die Beschaffenheit von Policy-Wandel in heutigen, entwickelten Gesellschaften dar. Der Beitrag betont die Gestaltungskraft von politischen Institutionen und Policy-Strukturen, die zentral für den historischen Institutionalismus sind. Er zeigt, dass sowohl abrupte als auch inkrementelle Formen des Wandels von Policies nicht ohne die Berücksichtigung der Rolle von Ideen und dem, was unter „Issue Ownership “ verstanden wird, erklärt werden können. In diesem Artikel wird auf die institutionen- und ideenzentrierte Literatur zurückgegriffen, um ein kohärentes analytisches Modell für die Untersuchung von Policy-Wandel zu entwickeln. Zur Veranschaulichung des wissenschaftlichen Mehrwerts, den dieses Modell für das Verständnis von Politikwandel leistet, nimmt der Beitrag auf neuere Entwicklung der Sozialpolitik in den Vereinigten Staaten Bezug.
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Rutherford, Malcolm. "Understanding Institutional Economics: 1918–1929." Journal of the History of Economic Thought 22, no. 3 (September 2000): 277–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10427710050122521.
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All attempts to define American institutionalism, whether in terms of a set of key methodological or theoretical principles or in terms of the contributions of the three generally accepted “founding” figures of Thorstein Veblen, Wesley Mitchell, and John R. Commons, have run into a problem with the apparent disparities within the movement. In terms of the three “founders” there are obvious and quite dramatic differences between the methodologies and theoretical directions of the three men. Veblen is associated with an evolutionary approach, a key distinction between pecuniary institutions and technological or industrial requirements, and a biting critique of orthodox theory and business practices; Mitchell with quantitative methods and detailed research on business cycles, an approach he established at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Commons with documentary histories, work on labor issues and public utility regulation, and an analytical scheme emphasizing the evolution of legal institutions and processes of dispute resolution. The same problem shows up with more explicit types of definition that often seem to capture only some parts or aspects of the movement and not others, or are so broad as to lack much specific content. Institutionalism easily appears as incoherent, as little more than a set of individual research programs with nothing in common other than a questioning of more orthodox theory and method. Thus, Mark Blaug has stated that institutionalism “was never more than a tenuous inclination to dissent from orthodox economics” (Blaug 1978, p. 712), and George Stigler has claimed that institutionalism had “no positive agenda of research,” “no set of problems or new methods,” nothing but “a stance of hostility to the standard theoretical tradition” (quoted in Kitch 1983, p. 170). This view still finds wide currency— for example Oliver Williamson has recently argued that “unable or unwilling to offer a rival research agenda, the older institutional economics was given over to methodological objections to orthodoxy” (Williamson 1998b, p. 24; see also 1998a).
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', Adlin, Raja Muhammad Amin, and Isril '. "Kapasitas Lembaga Badan Permusyawaratan Desa Buluh Cina Kecamatan Siak Hulu Kabupaten Kampar dalam Membuat Peraturan Desa Tahun 2010." Nakhoda: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan 10, no. 1 (October 23, 2013): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.35967/jipn.v10i1.1596.
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Badan Pemusyawaratan Desa (BPD) are an institutionalism was held the governance in village that mustbe function as a legislation in village and so BPD gives some authority to discuss about the rules ofvillage with head of village. BPD in Buluh Cina on 2010 doesnt have capacity for make a rules of village tokeep the norm of society or rules of village to take some money to increase income a village in orderBuluh Cina Village are a tourisme village with a natural potentionand his culture. This research describesa factors that cause the weakness of BPD Buluh Cina to make a rules a village. Kualitative descriptivemethods with sampling puprossive technic are used with gets data from depth interview with informanuntill researcher get the valid information. This research show that model’s of recruitment BPD wasdomination from elite of village. Societies choice the candidate dont have a popularities and so manycandidates dont know and dont have a science to be a BPD. Supra government in a village also never doa workshop for BPD and minim of salary also be a reason for BPD in Buluh Cina Village to do evectivelly.Keywords: Recruitmen, Capacity of candidate, workshop, salary and institutionalism capacity.
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McCreadie, R. G., R. Thara, S. Kamath, R. Padmavathy, S. Latha, N. Mathrubootham, and M. S. Menon. "Abnormal Movements in Never-Medicated Indian Patients with Schizophrenia." British Journal of Psychiatry 168, no. 2 (February 1996): 221–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.168.2.221.
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BackgroundHistorical records suggest dyskinesia was observed in severely ill institutionalised patients with schizophrenia in the pre-neuroleptic era More recent work has not found dyskinesia in never-medicated younger and middle aged patients. The present study complements this recent work and avoids the confounders of severity of illness and institutionalism by examining elderly patients in a wide variety of community settings.MethodMovement disorders were examined in 308 elderly individuals in Madras, India, using the Abnormal Involuntary Movements Scale, the Simpson and Angus Parkinsonism Scale and the Barnes Akathisia Scale. Patients' mental state was assessed by the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale.ResultsDyskinesia was found in 15% of normal subjects (n=101, mean age 63 years), 15% of first degree blood relatives of younger schizophrenic patients (n=103, mean age 63 years), 38% of never medicated patients (n=21, mean age 65 years) and 41 % of medicated patients (n=83, mean age 57 years). The respective prevalences for Parkinsonism were 6%, 11 %, 24% and 36%; and for akathisia 9%, 5%, 21 % and 23%. Dyskinesia was associated with negative schizophrenic symptoms.ConclusionsDyskinesia in elderly schizophrenic patients is an integral part of the illness and not associated with antipsychotic medication.
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Noor, Wahyuddin. "Azyumardi Azra : Pembaruan Pemikiran dan Kelembagaan Pendidikan Islam di Indonesia." Tarbawy : Jurnal Pendidikan Islam 5, no. 1 (April 15, 2018): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32923/tarbawy.v5i1.827.
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As a scholar, Azyumardi Azra is one of the many reformers of Islamic education in Indonesia. Islamic education, according to Azra, needs to develop a dual approach strategy with the aim of integrating short-term situational approaches with a long-term conceptual approach. Changes in Islamic education can be done by changing thinking and institutions. This change of thought and institutions is a prerequisite for the rise of the Muslims in modern times. Renewal of Islamic education thought Azyumardi Azra, including: a). Modernization of Islamic education; b). Democratization of Islamic education. In the field of institutionalism, Azra was also known as an activist or practitioner of reforming Islamic education institutions. During his leadership, IAIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta experienced a change in status to UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, truly an achievement that had never been achieved in the previous era.
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O'Donnell, Rod. "General theorising and historical specificity: Hodgson on Keynes." Journal of Institutional Economics 15, no. 4 (March 27, 2019): 715–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744137418000413.
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AbstractIn relation to Keynes's thought on general theorising, consumption theory and institutions, this paper closely examines Geoff Hodgson's views as set out in his magisterial work, How Economics Forgot History. While in full agreement with its advocacy of the institutionalist programme, it finds that Keynes's position has been misunderstood in all three areas, and that deep compatibilities exist between the General Theory and institutionalist analysis. Using all his available writings, it is argued that Keynes's conception of a general theory is very different from that underpinning neoclassical economics so that criticisms of the latter are irrelevant to the former, that Keynes's ‘fundamental psychological law’ was never advanced as a universal law applicable to all economies, and that Keynes expressly analysed a historically specific economic institution and its assemblage of sub-institutions. Keynes is an ally, not an enemy, of institutionalism in pursuing better economic theory.
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Sarangi, Asha. "Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph: In Memoriam." Studies in Indian Politics 4, no. 2 (December 2016): 274–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321023016665558.
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Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph were globally acclaimed scholars of India at the University of Chicago where they spent nearly four decades of their lives teaching and researching on India and South Asia. Their numerous works done in this intellectual partnership of more than six decades produced paradigmatic shift both methodologically and thematically in the study of Indian society and politics, more specifically about the nature of Indian state and its democratic institutionalism. Their critical concern for India about its experiments with democratic institutions and modernity of tradition was in consonance with their convictions about the durability of Indian social ethos and structures of social and political life. They belonged to the first generation of ‘area specialists’ who returned to their subjects of inquiry regularly with a critical gaze and newer perspectives over the years. For them, the field of study became an intellectual habitus that they nurtured with great discipline, care, conscience and craft.
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Powell, Walter W. "Fields of Practice: Connections between Law and Organizations." Law & Social Inquiry 21, no. 04 (1996): 959–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.1996.tb00102.x.
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It is, of course, both a privilege and a challenge to have one's work attended to in the thorough and thoughtful manner exemplified by Professors Suchman and Edelman's and Professor Sutton's essays. The New Institutionalism in Organizarional Analysis has been subject of many review symposia—in journals of accounting, business, political science, and sociology. But the traffic has never been two-way: our work is typically imported into new domains, but here we also have the opportunity to see how law and society research might enhance institutional analysis. In reading and reflecting on these valuable commentaries, I am pulled by divergent reactions: “Why didn't we think of that?” and “that's not what we meant” are the most common. But rather than play out these responses in print, I plead nolo contendere and concur with Suchman and Edelman's contention that institutional analysis has treated the law and the legal environment in an overly determinist fashion. In focusing on the letter of the law and its purported impact, institutional analysis neglects the extent to which the law and the legal environment are subject to negotiation, interpretation, and contestation.
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Bouilloud, Jean-Philippe, Mar Pérezts, Thierry Viale, and Valentin Schaepelynck. "Beyond the Stable Image of Institutions: Using Institutional Analysis to Tackle Classic Questions in Institutional Theory." Organization Studies 41, no. 2 (January 17, 2019): 153–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840618815519.
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Although institutions are subject to constant change, we retain a stable image of them. Consequently, should they be considered as objects or processes? Notwithstanding its success, institutional theory still faces theoretical challenges to account simultaneously for change and stability, agency and structure. Following recent calls to integrate other perspectives on how we think about institutions, we draw on institutional analysis – a stream that has flourished in Europe and Latin America – to propose a radical and comprehensive conception of the institution as a locus of tension between the instituting (by which institutions are formed) and the instituted (temporarily stabilized forms). Since there is permanent tension between them, the institution itself can never be a stable object. It is constantly evolving, being either reinforced or destabilized. This research enriches the theoretical dialogue between organizational institutionalism and institutional analysis, two streams that have hitherto displayed little cross-fertilization. First, it contributes to rethinking the nature of institutions by emphasizing the role of the social imaginary, thus improving our understanding of the under-theorized role of imagination in institutionalization processes. Second, by placing the dynamic tension between the instituted and the instituting at the core of institutional theories, we answer calls to reclaim their missing critical dimension. Furthermore, this results in a methodological implication: the clinical approach of institutional analysis involving the intervention of researchers allows us to further embed institutional theories in organizational practice.
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Pretorius, J. Loot. "The Use of Official Languages Act: Diversity Affirmed?" Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 16, no. 1 (April 26, 2017): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2013/v16i1a2313.
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A full sixteen years after the coming into force of the 1996 Constitution, Parliament responded to the constitutional obligation to regulate and monitor, by legislative and other means, the use of official languages by adopting the Use of Official Languages Act 12 of 2012. The Act represents a very limited normative appreciation of this constitutional instruction. The official language clause of the Constitution expresses a normative commitment regarding the positive affirmation of linguistic diversity, which is directly informed by and closely aligned to the core normative values of the Constitution. The Constitution’s positive evaluation of difference, including linguistic difference, inter alia, flows from the values of substantive equality, equal citizenship, dignity and proportionality. However, the way in which the Act institutionalises the promotion of inclusive linguistic diversity does not reflect an unambiguous recognition of this obligation being normatively embedded in the foundational value structure of the Constitution. The real responsibility for decisions regarding official language use is located in the policy-making competence of non-independent administrative bodies. The Act itself is devoid of instructive standards of its own to guide administrative decision-making regarding official language use. This results in the responsibility for making the most important normative choices regarding the use of official languages not being reserved for the legislative process, but entrusted to non-independent advisory administrative bodies. The nature of the Act confirms that it never was the intention of the government to be bound by legislation in this respect. This modus operandi is democratically deficient and compromises both the separation of powers and the principle of legal certainty as fundamental tenets of the rule of law.
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Darmastuti, Ari. "A Constructivist Institutionalism Perspective of Disaster and Crisis Countermeasure in Indonesia." Forum Geografi 34, no. 2 (December 10, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.23917/forgeo.v34i2.11888.
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As a country that lies in the area known as the Ring of Fire, Indonesia is prone to many disasters and the aftermaths of such crises, from low-scale earthquake events up to mega-magnitude tsunami, earthquakes and volcanoes. The current Covid-19 pandemic is another disaster in mega magnitude scale that the country must deal with. Research on disaster risk reduction and management has been conducted, yet little is known about how governments, as the most important actor in disaster countermeasures, develop their institutions based on unpredictable exogenous factors. This study aims to critically analyse disaster and crisis countermeasures in Indonesia based on a constructivist perspective. The data for this qualitative study were mainly collected through document studies, together with some interviews. The mega-crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the establishment of long-term national, provincial, local, and lower level task forces all over Indonesia. This kind of institutional arrangement has never previously been developed in the country, not even after the 2006 mega-tsunami which hit various provinces and led to a huge death toll of over 100,000. The study shows that although the institutional arrangements for disaster countermeasures in Indonesia are based on the same law, the implementation of institutional structures and practices as disaster countermeasures vary greatly.
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Aksom, Herman. "Reconciling conflicting predictions about transience and persistence of management concepts in management fashion theory and new institutionalism." International Journal of Organizational Analysis ahead-of-print, ahead-of-print (April 9, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoa-10-2020-2445.
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Purpose Although drawing from neoinstitutional theoretical apparatus and ontology, management fashion theory is understood as a theory that explains the transitory nature of popular ideas and practices while institutional theory explains their stabilization, persistence and further institutionalization. In a nutshell, it seems that being opposed to each other, these two theories describe and predict different, incommensurable diffusion trajectories and organizational behaviour patterns. The purpose of this paper is to unify these two competing perspectives. Design/methodology/approach This paper makes an attempt toward further unification of management fashion theory with new institutionalism by offering an alternative understanding and conceptualization of institutional change and deinstitutionalization and by distinguishing emerging concepts from already popular fashions. Findings Most emerging concepts never achieve popularity and disappear while few of them achieve massive media attention and diffuse widely becoming new management fashions. Once these concepts have achieved a wide popularity institutional forces would favor them and lead to further institutionalization. Institutional change is understood not as a deinstitutionalization of existing management fashion in terms of erosion, discontinuity or disappearance but as a decline in its media coverage while media attention focuses on new fashionable concept. The former management fashion gets institutionalized, institutional change occurs in terms of shifting attention toward new fashion and diffusion and institutionalization cycle restarts. Institutional prediction of isomorphism and institutionalization as irreversible tendencies thus can be unified with MF prediction about the bell-shaped curves in fashions’ popularity. Therefore, postulates and predictions of management fashion theory can be derived from new institutionalism and vice versa. Practical implications The paper aims to cover, generalize and explain different trajectories of various management and organizational concepts, deducing theoretical propositions from both institutional theory and management fashion theory. Theoretical and methodological ideas offered in this paper can be helpful in future research on management fashions and diffusion. Studies on the evolution of management concept can benefit from proposed categorization and causal relationships between different stages of the life cycle. Originality/value Unifying seemingly conflicting and disparate perspectives and views allows making organization theory more coherent in terms of both explanatory power and ontological commensurability. Following other mature sciences, we share the same notion of progress, namely, the aim of achieving unification and demonstrating that different organizational theories still describe the same reality.