Cardinale, Ivano. 2019. On action, embeddedness, and institutional change. Academy of Management Review, 44(3), pp. 673-700. ISSN 0363-7425 [Article]

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2019.0026
Keywords:	Agency, action, embeddedness, protention, institutional change
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Institute of Management Studies Institute of Management Studies > Structural Economic Analysis
Dates:	Date Event 28 February 2019 Accepted 11 March 2019 Published Online 9 July 2019 Published
Item ID:	25961
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2019 15:47
Last Modified:	19 Feb 2024 16:39
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25961

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