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10 - Institutional Theory and World Society (2009)

from Part IV - Institutions of Modernity and Postmodernity: The Construction of Actors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

Ronald L. Jepperson  and
John W. Meyer
By
J. Meyer
Ronald L. Jepperson
Affiliation:
University of Tulsa
John W. Meyer
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Reflections on how sociological neoinstitutionalism has been used to understand the rise, nature, and impact of the modern world order as itself a society. Discussion of globalization, and large-scale social change, from this perspective. Includes a discussion of Anglo-European modernity as a quasi-religious system.

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institutional theoryworld societyactorsactorhoodotherhoodcosmologyreligion
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
 , pp. 243 - 280
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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