Institutional Quality from a Sociological Perspective: Contributions and Challenges
Debate: The Quality of Institutions. An Interdisciplinary Perspective
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Institutional quality, student sociology, Organisations, Institutions, Sociology of development, Organisational cultureAbstract
This article provides a brief overview of the question of research on institutional quality from sociological perspectives. Drawing on the conception of institution inherent to this discipline, two groups of studies have been selected that are useful for understanding how institutional features influence certain aspects of organisations or their aggregates. The first group of studies deal with the overlap of elements of social structure and culture in sectors of activity of countries or territorial areas, particularly in the sociology of development, while the second group of studies focus more on the cultural side of organisations. Although both currents share theoretical assumptions and research interests, they are poorly connected in the literature that studies institutions from the point of view of their social performance. They do, however, offer complementary empirical results. Their comparison provides an approximation of the contributions of sociology to the study of institutional quality, which in turn enables challenges for future research and collaborations with other disciplines to be identified.
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