THE CHOICE-WITHIN-CONSTRAINTS NEW INSTITUTIONALISM AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIOLOGY

By Paul Ingram, Karen Clay. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Safety Research

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Formal control and social control in domestic and international buyer–supplier relationships (2010, background): “The wider the institutions are accepted by actors in a field, the more costly such inconsistencies (or deviations) will be (Ingram and Clay, 2000).”
Does the Colour of the Cat Matter? The Red Hat Strategy in China's Private Enterprises (2007, neutral): “In the new institutionalism literature, economic actions are viewed as historically specific and embedded in public and private institutions such as laws, rules, norms and their enforcement mechanisms (Granovetter, 1985; Ingram and Clay, 2000; North, 1990; Rao et al., 2003).”
GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBOURS: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF AN INDUSTRY SELF-REGULATORY INSTITUTION (2018, positive): “Ingram and Clay (2000) refined North’s typology by suggesting that institutions should be classified as (1) public or private and (2) centralized or decentralized.”
Navigating Social and Institutional Barriers to Markets: How Social Entrepreneurs Identify and Evaluate Opportunities (2006, background): “In describing the new institutionalism in economics, Ingram and Clay (2000) argue that institutions form the basis of order and help to smooth interactions among actors.”
Sharing and Shaping: A Cross-Country Comparison of How Sharing Economy Firms Shape Their Institutional Environment to Gain Legitimacy (2018, background): “…existing institutions to gain legitimacy and/or competitive advantage dates back at least to Oliver’s (1991) seminal piece on strategic responses to institutional processes—through the choice-within-constraints tradition of the new institutionalism (Ingram & Clay, 2000; Ingram & Silverman, 2002).”
Comparing capitalisms: understanding institutional diversity and its implications for international business (2008, background): “This choice-withinconstraints approach to understanding institutions has been discussed widely elsewhere (Ingram & Clay, 2000).”
Microfoundations of Routines and Capabilities: Individuals, Processes, and Structure (2012, neutral): “Similarly, albeit at an alternative level of analysis, a broadly conceived institutional theory (with links to both economics and sociology) examines the role of “choice-within-constraints” in disparate regulatory and societal contexts (Ingram and Clay, 2000).”
Public–private collaboration in the tourism sector: balancing legitimacy and effectiveness in local tourism partnerships. The Spanish case (2012, background): “In their pursuit of legitimacy, organisations modify their organisational dimensions to be compatible with the characteristics (organisational structures, labels, beliefs, discourses) of their institutional environments (Ingram & Clay, 2000).”
The New Institutionalism in Strategic Management (2002, methodology): “Institutional Forms We employ an extension of the classification system for institutions that was first introduced in Ingram and Clay (2000).”
Harmonization in CSR Reporting (2011, background): “The coercion level depends both on the entity which makes the rules and how these rules are enforced (Ingram and Clay 2000).”
Isomorphism, diffusion and decoupling: Concept evolution and theoretical challenges. (2008, background): “Another proposal relating to how heterogeneity forms is that organizations are active agents that respond strategically, within certain boundaries, to institutional pressure (Ingram and Clay 2000).”