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Scholarship on organizational culture and institutional analysis differ in their intellectual origins, modal research methods, and mechanisms explaining stability and change. At the same time, these two traditions share an underlying concern with systems of meaning. Against this backdrop the conto the symposium used two strategies to write across the boundaries separating cultural and institutional analysis. The first strategy involved developing common meta-theoretical languages and the second focused on identifying research problems and questions in scholarly “trading zones” where approaches drawn from both cultural and institutional perspectives can be developed. Trading zones suggest certain advantages in working across scholarly traditions with respect to problem scale, theoretical scope, methodology, and graduate education.

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From Bridges to Trading Zones in Organizational Culture and Institutional Research

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