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The Recursive Nature of Institutional Change: An Annales School Perspective

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  • Durand, Rodolphe
  • Clemente, Marco
  • Roulet, Thomas J.

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In this essay, we propose a recursive model of institutional change building on the Annales School, one of the 20th century’s most influential streams of historical research. Our model builds upon three concepts from the Annales — mentalities, levels of time, and critical events — to explore how punctual disruptions affect different dimensions of institutional logics and exert short- or long-range influences. On these bases, organizations make choices, from decoupling to more radical shifts in logics, leading to severe institutional changes that become a matter of history. As much as organizations are influenced by their times and the prevalent institutional logics, their choices trigger macro-level changes in a recursive manner. More broadly, we comment on how fruitful it our approach to historicize organization studies.

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  • Durand, Rodolphe & Clemente, Marco & Roulet, Thomas J., 2016. "The Recursive Nature of Institutional Change: An Annales School Perspective," HEC Research Papers Series 1159, HEC Paris.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebg:heccah:1159
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    1. Obloj Krzysztof, 2019. "Footnotes to organizational competitiveness," Economics and Business Review, Sciendo, vol. 5(3), pages 35-49, September.
    2. Thomas Roulet, 2019. "Les Evaluations Sociales en Stratégie : Légitimité, Réputation, Statut, Stigmate et Cie," Post-Print hal-01970557, HAL.
    3. Thibault Daudigeos & Thomas Roulet & Bertrand Valiorgue, 2020. "How Scandals Act as Catalysts of Fringe Stakeholders' Contentious Actions against Multinational Corporations," Post-Print hal-03041023, HAL.

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    Annales School; Institutional change; Institutional Logics; Events;
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