Review and Prospect of Organizational Institutionalization
LIANG Fei-ran1, WANG Li-ping2
1.School of Business Administration， Nanjing University of Finance & Economics ， Nanjing Jiangsu 210023，China 2.Business School， Renmin University of China， Beijing 100872， China
Abstract：Being significant to strategic management and organizational theory， organizational institutionalization research has been receiving constant attention and being highly valued. By systematically sorting the development history of organizational institutionalization research， the study finds that organizational institutionalization is based on micro-foundations of institution， and is influenced by ideology and conception， and behavioral practice. It is essentially shaped by such basic elements as legitimacy， cultural penetration， practice-drive， power participation， institutional change， and technological impetus， and has the inherent motivation to expand the institutional order. Under the current context of an era of network intelligence and information big data， three major directions for future organizational institutionalization research are proposed： theoretical extendibility， linguistic turn of research methods， and big data technology as an impetus for organizational institutionalization.
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