SCOTT, W. Richard <br/><br/>
Institutions and organizations 

 - 2 ed 
 - California :  Sage Publications,  2001 
 - 255 p. 
 - Foundations for Organizational Science .
<br/><br/> Early institutionalists  Early institutional theory in economics  Early institutional theory in political science  Early institutional theory in sociology  Institutional theory and organizations  Institutions and organizations: early approaches  Foundations of neoinstitutional theory  Constructing an analytic framework I: three pillars of institutions  Defining institutions  The three pillars of institutions  The three pillars and legitimacy  Basic assumptions associated with the three pillars  Constructing an analytic framework II: content, agency, carriers, and levels  Institucional content and organizations  Agency and institutions  Varying carriers  Varying levels of analysis  Institutional construction, maintenance, and diffusion  Variance and process approaches to explaining institutions  Craeting institutions  Maintaining and diffusing institutions  Institutional processes affecting societal systems, organizational fields, and organizational populations  Institutional agents and processes  Institutional processes and societal systems  Institutional processes and organizational fields  Institutional processes and organizational populations  Institutional processes affecting organizational structure and performance  Legitimacy and isomorphism  Institutional context and organizational change  Structuration processes  Looking back, looking forward  Accomplishments  Indicators of progress  The challenge continues 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Instituicoes<br/>Instituicao Politica<br/>Teoria Politica<br/>Teoria Social<br/>Instituicao Economica<br/>Instituicao Juridica<br/>Organizacao