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Was ist neu am Neo-Institutionalismus?

Eine vergleichende Betrachtung der Organisationsumwelten zwischen dem Neo-Institutionalismus und anderen dominanten Ansätzen der US-amerikanischen Organisationssoziologie

What is new about the new-institutionalism?

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Der Artikel diskutiert die Leistung des soziologischen Neo-Institutionalismus im Vergleich mit anderen dominanten Ansätzen der US-amerikanischen Organisationssoziologie. Die Argumentation des Artikels wird von der These geleitet, dass die US-amerikanische Organisationssoziologie in ihren wichtigen Strömungen wie der Kontingenztheorie, dem Ressourcen-Dependenz-Ansatz und der Populationsökologie sich weitgehend als eine Disziplin darstellt, in der die Ökonomie als übergeordneter Referenzbereich explizit oder implizit vorausgesetzt wird und in dem die Gesellschaft bzw. die Umwelt von Organisationen fast ausschließlich als ökonomische Umwelt gedacht ist. Eine multikontextuelle Verbindung von Organisation und Gesellschaft ist in diesen Ansätzen nicht prävalent. Im Unterschied dazu berücksichtigt der soziologische Neo-Institutionalismus eine Vielzahl organisationaler Umweltbereiche und betrachtet Organisationen stets innerhalb eines gesellschaftlichen Kontextes. Darin besteht das Neue des Neo-Institutionalismus für die US-amerikanische Organisationssoziologie. Die Darstellung und Analyse dieses zentralen Unterschieds zwischen dem soziologischen Neo-Institutionalismus und den anderen Theorien der US-amerikanischen Organisationssoziologie ist das zentrale Anliegen des vorliegenden Beitrags.

Abstract

This paper discusses the specific characteristic of the new institutionalism in comparison with other dominant approaches within US organization studies. The argument is led by the theses that within contingency theory, resource dependency theory, and population ecology the economic environment is of utmost importance and that the economy is regarded as the major sphere of reference, either implicitly or explicitly. A multi-contextual embeddedness between organizations and society is hardly to be found within these theoretical approaches. The new institutionalism departs from this line of thinking, because it considers a variety of different environmental realms and sees organizations as always being embedded within a societal context. I regard this as the central new and distinguishing feature of the new institutionalism. The aim of the paper is to show this distinguishing difference between the new institutionalism and the three approaches.

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Senge, K. Was ist neu am Neo-Institutionalismus?. ÖZS 32, 42–65 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-007-0003-7

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