Institutional Continuity and the Dutch Construction Industry Fiddle
Organization Studies · 2011 · Volume 32 · Issue 11
Abstract
The article deals with the question of how institutional continuity is realized. It presents an analysis of the continuation of the institution of pre-consultation in the Dutch construction industry over a period of nine years, after this was declared illegal as a consequence of European Union regulations. The analysis utilizes a structuration-based practice approach to institutionalization. The findings suggest that institutional continuity is a matter of a social mechanism which emerges as a consequence of the particular way in which practices are enacted, and which has the effect of repairing and/or concealing contradiction so that change is not initiated.
Keywords
collusion, construction industry, institutional change, institutional continuity, institutional theory, practices, social mechanism, structuration
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