Exploring Neo-Institutional Theory With Ethnographic Content Analysis

Toward a cross-level understanding of institutional change: a microfoundational perspective

“…To advance understanding of action formation mechanisms, we propose the need to: (a) understand organizations as comprising individual actors, (b) consider them as representing multiple, conflicting logics, (c) study when they are more susceptible to the environment, and (d) explore the process of how environmental stimuli and complexity coalesce and instigate change. We believe that an ethnographic research method would be ideal for this situation (Wilbur, 2019). While such research would certainly contribute to our grasp of action formation mechanisms, we also believe it would advance our understanding of the structural versus agency debate.…”