Making the Cut: Using Status-Based Countertactics to Block Social Movement Implementation and Microinstitutional Change in Surgery
Published Online:2 Dec 2011https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1110.0704
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Katherine C. Kellogg, (2011) Making the Cut: Using Status-Based Countertactics to Block Social Movement Implementation and Microinstitutional Change in Surgery. Organization Science 23(6):1546-1570.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1110.0704
Keywords
- institutional theory
- social movement theory
- law and society theory
- organization theory
- social movements
- institutional change
- microinstitutional change
- microfoundations
- microprocesses
- status
- occupations
- professions
- power
- politics
- culture
- gender
- countermobilization
- reform
- ethnography
- ethnographic
- field study
- comparative case study
- medicine
- health care
The author gratefully acknowledges help from Lotte Bailyn, Roberto Fernandez, Wanda Orlikowski, Leslie Perlow, John Van Maanen, Ezra Zuckerman, Klaus Weber, and three anonymous reviewers. The paper has benefitted greatly from comments on earlier drafts by Lucio Baccaro, Forrest Briscoe, Emilio Castilla, Jason Davis, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, Sarah Kaplan, Mike Lounsbury, Denise Lewin Loyd, Doug McAdam, Mark Mortensen, Ray Reagans, Sean Safford, Mike Sauder, Ofer Sharone, Susan Silbey, Cat Turco, Chris Wheat, Mayer Zald, the MIT Economic Sociology working group, the Boston College Media Research and Action Project, the Harvard Business School Qualitative Inductive Ethnographic group, the WOW group, and the KVEJJ group. This paper would not have been possible without the time donated by surgical residents and staff surgeons at Advent and Calhoun hospitals and the generous financial support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
