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      Estrutura, agência e interpretação: elementos para uma abordagem recursiva do processo de institucionalização Translated title: Unlocking the institutionalization process: insights for an institutionalizing approach

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          A teoria neo-institucional tem sido caracterizada por alguns estudiosos do campo dos estudos organizacionais como uma abordagem supostamente determinística. Demonstramos no presente ensaio teórico que tal caracterização não pode ser impingida à perspectiva neo-institucional de maneira generalizada, mas apenas a uma leitura dicotômica dela, típica de visões monoparadigmáticas do processo de institucionalização. A partir dessa demonstração, defendemos a idéia da teoria institucional como teoria multiparadigmática. Para tanto, apresentamos argumentos em favor de uma abordagem recursiva do processo de institucionalização, ressaltando que as noções de estrutura, agência e interpretação são mais apropriadamente tratadas quando definidas como elementos fundamentais da institucionalização como processo recorrente, garantido e condicionado, não determinado, por certo grau de estabilização dos sistemas sociais. Concluímos o ensaio com considerações metodológicas sobre as conseqüências do uso da proposta de abordagem sistêmicoprocessual recorrente da institucionalização para o desenvolvimento de pesquisas no campo dos estudos organizacionais.

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          The neoinstitutional theory has been characterized by some scholars in the field of organizational studies as a supposedly deterministic approach. We will demonstrate in this paper that this characterization cannot be impinged on the neoinstitutional perspective in a generalized way, but only to a dichotomic reading of it, that is typical of monoparadigmatic views of the process of institutionalization. With this demonstration, we defend the idea of the institutional theory as a multiparadigmatic theory. To this end, we present arguments for a recursive approach of the institutionalization process, highlighting that the notions of structure, agency and interpretation are more suitably dealt with when defended as fundamental elements of institutionalization as a recurrent, guaranteed process that is conditioned, not determined, by a certain degree of stabilization of social systems. We conclude the essay with methodological considerations on the consequences of the use of the proposal for a recurrent systemic-process approach of institutionalization for the development of research in the field of organizational studies.

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                Journal
                rac
                Revista de Administração Contemporânea
                Rev. adm. contemp.
                Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (Curitiba, PR, Brazil )
                1415-6555
                1982-7849
                September 2010
                : 14
                : spe
                : 77-107
                Affiliations
                [02] Curitiba PR orgnameUFSC Brasil
                [03] Maringá PR orgnameEAESP Brasil
                [01] orgnameMichigan State University EUA
                Article
                S1415-65552010000600005 S1415-6555(10)01400005
                10.1590/S1415-65552010000600005
                2b854a3b-c15f-4b7b-9753-ac0617eca427

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 20 October 2004
                : 20 December 2004
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                institutionalization,agência,estrutura social,social structure,agency,institucionalização,teoria institucional,interpretive schemes,esquemas interpretativos,institutional theory

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