행위자들의 양면적 상황설정과 딜레마 그리고 제도화: 노사정위원회의 제도화 과정을 중심으로 = Organizations` Equivocal Enactment, Dilemma, and Institutionalization: A Case Study on the Institutionalization Process of The Korea Tripartite Commission

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Despite lack of commitment and motivation by participants to an organization, the Korea Tripartite Commission (KTC) has been successfully consolidated and institutionalized. This study takes the theoretical view that an organization does not perceive the objective environment passively, but creates it actively through an enactment. The analysis shows that all participants, seemingly paradoxical, have enacted the environment both positively and negatively at once. These paradoxical and conflictual constructions are a result of the environment by equivocal enactment. The participants have taken equivocal enactment to meet the trade-offs between the demands of environmental change and status quo. For example, the participants have wanted to expand the function of KTC as well as rejecting a stronger KTC`s status. This kind of equivocal enactment has imposed dilemmas on each participant at the time of making decisions. The KTC has been institutionalized absorbing equivocal demands. The findings of this study that organizations take the equivocal enactment may be contradictory to modernistic organization theory. But these contradictory phenomena exist in organizational behavior and policy processes.