Institutionalized New Institutionalism in Organizational Theories(<Special Issue>The Social Construction of Knowledge)

Abstract

New institutionalism has fallen into confusions. This paper suggests that these confusions have rooted in the incompletely understanding about the key concepts in new institutionalism. This phenomenon could be recognized as institutionalized new institutionalism. To resolve these confusions, I revisit the key concept in the new institutionalism to reveal the essential implications, which they supposed to propose. Based on them, I discuss the reasons of the confusions of the previous works, and advocate the new direction for new institutionalism.