RISE: institutional theory

old institutionalism: changes
neoinstitutionalism: stability

basis of the theory
phenomenology (Parsons 1960)
ethnomethodology (Garfinkel 1967, Bourdieu 1990, Goffman 1959, 1977)
practice research (Giddens 1984, Bourdieu 1990)

further details,
http://www.rise.ch/blog/index.php/p=22