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- Title
INSTITUTIONALIZATION AS AN INTERPLAY BETWEEN ACTIONS, MEANINGS, AND ACTORS: THE CASE OF A RAPE CRISIS CENTER IN ISRAEL.
- Authors
Zilber, Tammar B.
- Abstract
In this article, I present an analysis of institutionalization as an interplay between three interrelated yet separate components-actors, actions, and meanings. Drawing on ethnographic data of a rape crisis center in Israel, where the entry of therapeutically oriented members resulted in the infusion of new meanings into originally feminist practices, I examine the role of organization members as carriers of institutions and their (possible) agency in infusing actions with meanings through interpretation; how meanings connect actors with actions; and institutional meanings as political resources.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; MENTAL health facilities; VICTIM assistance; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; SOCIAL interaction; ORGANIZATIONAL change; CRISIS centers; ORGANIZATIONAL research; RAPE victims -- Services for; THERAPEUTIC communities
- Publication
Academy of Management Journal, 2002, Vol 45, Issue 1, p234
- ISSN
0001-4273
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/3069294