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By: CR Hinings, Joseph Jupille, James A Caporaso

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This book has an ambitious goal—but not the one called for by some critics of institutional analysis in organization theory. The ambitious goal is to provide an overview, critique, and synthesis of institutional theories in the social sciences, particularly political science, sociology, and economics (organization theory is subsumed under sociology). However, the aim is not to provide an overarching theory of institutions or a critique of the field. Some scholars see institutional theory as uninhibited in its reach () and in need of more discipline and structure (see responses by ; ; ). What Jupille and Caporaso want is “engagement across disciplines, subfields and levels of expertise” (p. 1) and research, and they reveal this more eclectic position by not attempting to summarize and integrate definitions of institutions; instead, they provide their own: “intertemporal social arrangements that shape human relations in support of particular values” (p. 3). For Jupille and Caporaso, searching for a single, overarching definition is fruitless.