This essay responds to Alvesson, Hallett, and Spicer’s recent critique of the instiutional literature. While it affirms and extends some of their particular criticisms, I reject their bleak assessment of the larger field and find value in some of the very features that they find to be most objectionable. I also offer some alternative suggestions for reform and future development. These include an explicit embrace of theoretical pluralism, a renewed focus on values, and a return to institutionalism’s pragmatist roots.

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边界、桥梁和品牌：评阿尔维森、哈利特和斯派塞的“不受约束的制度主义”

这篇文章回应了阿尔维森、哈利特和斯派塞最近对制度性文学的批评。虽然它肯定并扩展了他们的一些特定批评，但我拒绝他们对更大领域的悲观评估，并在他们认为最令人反感的一些特征中找到了价值。我也对改革和未来发展提出了一些可供选择的建议。其中包括明确接受理论多元化、重新关注价值观以及回归制度主义的实用主义根源。