Institutions and Actorhood as Co-Constitutive and Co-Constructed: The Argument and Areas for Future Research
Journal of Management Studies · 2020 · Volume 57 · Issue 4
Abstract
We argue that in order to overcome the reductionism and essentialism in institutional theory there is a need to acknowledge that institutions and social actors are co-constitutive and co-constructed in processes of communication. We elaborate this argument by drawing on the phenomenological foundation of institutional theory and point to promising areas of future research: the multimodal nature of institutions, the mediated and mediatized character of modern communication, and the contestedness of all social orders and their legitimation.
Keywords
actorhood, co-constitution, communication, discourse, institutional theory, legitimacy, multimodality
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