This paper makes the case for an inhabited institutionalism by pondering questions that continue to vex institutional theory: How can we account for local activity, agency, and change without reverting to a focus on individual actors—the very kinds of actors that institutional theory was designed to critique? How is change possible in an institutional context that constructs interests and sets the very conditions for such action? Efforts to deal with these questions by inserting various forms of individual, purposive actors into institutional frameworks have created inconsistencies that threaten the overall coherence of institutional theory and move it farther from its sociological roots. To provide alternative answers, we turn to the growing line of work on “inhabited” institutions. Our exegesis of this literature has two goals. The first goal is to shift focus away from individuals and nested imagery and towards social interaction and coupling configurations. This move opens new avenues for research and helps to identify the spaces—both conceptual and empirical—and the supra-individual processes that facilitate change. This shift has important theoretical implications: incorporating social interaction alters institutional theory, and our second goal is to specify an analytic framework for this new research, an inhabited institutional ism . Inhabited institutionalism is a meso-approach for examining the recursive relationships among institutions, interactions, and organizations. It provides novel and sociologically consistent means for dealing with issues of agency and change, and a new agenda for research that can reinvigorate and reunite organizational sociology and institutional theory.

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组织研究中常驻制度主义的案例：重新考虑互动、耦合和变革

本文通过思考继续困扰制度理论的问题，为存在的制度主义提供了理由：我们如何在不重新关注个体行为者的情况下解释当地的活动、代理和变化——制度理论设计的正是这些行为者批评？在构建利益并为此类行动设定条件的制度环境中，如何可能发生变化？通过将各种形式的个人、有目的的行为者插入制度框架来解决这些问题的努力造成了不一致，威胁到制度理论的整体连贯性，并使其远离其社会学根源。为了提供替代答案，我们转向越来越多的关于“有人居住”机构的工作。我们对这些文献的解经有两个目标。第一个目标是将焦点从个人和嵌套图像转移到社交互动和耦合配置上。这一举措为研究开辟了新的途径，有助于确定空间——包括概念和经验——以及促进变革的超个人过程。这种转变具有重要的理论意义：纳入社会互动会改变制度理论，我们的第二个目标是为这项新研究指定一个分析框架，一种有人居住的制度主义。常驻制度主义是一种中观方法，用于检查制度、互动和组织之间的递归关系。它为处理能动性和变化问题提供了新颖的和社会学上一致的方法，