Why (and How) Institutional Theory Can Be Critical: Addressing the Challenge to Institutional Theory’s Critical Turn
- 6 October 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Management Inquiry
- Vol. 28 (3), 335-349
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492617732832
Abstract
Through a direct response to Willmott’s challenge to institutional theory’s critical potential, I show why and how it is possible for institutional theory to become more critical, while also respecting and maintaining important differences with critical theory.Keywords
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