Institutional analysis of strategy in organizations: an outline of possibilities

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/S1415-65552004000500004
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strategy, new institutionalism, institutional environment, action.

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João Marcelo Crubellate
Universidade Federal do Paraná
Paulo Sérgio Grave
Universidade de São Paulo
Ariston Azevedo Mendes
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

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The analysis of strategy in organizations and the institutional theory have been developed, until recently, as incompatible approaches to decision and action. However a set of new organizational researches based on institutional theory are trying to conciliate the idea of strategic agency and the influence of institutional patterns to explain how decisions are taken and how organizations connect to their environments. As the field of strategy research has not yet seriously taken that possibility, with some few but relevant exceptions, it seems that new contributions are required. So, the main purposes of this paper were: to summary institutional theory perspectives in organization academic field and to suggest new theoretical and conceptual insights for the strategy theory from an institutional point of view. It is possible to conclude that the effort to conciliate those theoretical streams - strategy in organizations and institutional theory - is useful to organization theory, as much as to overcome some difficult aspects of strategic and institutional phenomena.

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Crubellate, J. M., Grave, P. S., & Mendes, A. A. (1). Institutional analysis of strategy in organizations: an outline of possibilities. Journal of Contemporary Administration, 8(spe), 37-60. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1415-65552004000500004
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João Marcelo Crubellate, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Mestre em Estratégia e Organizações pela Universidade Federal do Paraná e Doutorando em Administração de Empresas na Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas. Professor da Universidade Estadual de Maringá, com interesse em pesquisa nas áreas de teoria organizacional, estratégia.

Paulo Sérgio Grave, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutor em Administração pela Universidade de São Paulo. Professor Titular da Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Suas áreas de interesse em pesquisa são educação em administração, estratégia.

Ariston Azevedo Mendes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutorando em Sociologia Política pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Professor da Universidade Estadual de Maringá, com interesse em pesquisa nas áreas de teoria das organizações, estratégia.