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ORGANIZATION STUDIES
Volume 34, Issue 8, Pages 1137-1170Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613492075
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institutional maintenance; Italy; professions; repair work
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This paper contributes to extending institutional theory by theorizing institutional maintenance as a process of repair and empirically examining repair work in a professional setting. Our in-depth, longitudinal case study illustrates how Italian professionsled by two professional associationsrebuffed the decisive intervention of the Italian Government to coercively reform the professional service sector and reconstituted institutional arrangements that had been severely disrupted. The paper advances theory on the resilience of institutions by showing that maintenance repair work enables powerful incumbents to reverse change and re-establish the status quo.
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