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From a sociological perspective, SI therefore emphasizes the importance of organizational myths and storytelling in defining acceptable behaviour of members of the organization (Meyer & Rowan 1977). For this reason, SI rejects the idea of a fully rational autonomous individual, opting instead for the concept of bounded rationality where ‘[i]ndividuals will make conscious choices, but those choices will remain within the parameters established by the dominant institutional values’ (Peters 2000, pp.
26–28). Forms and procedures of organizational life stem, accordingly, from culturally specific actions, and institutions transcribe these norms and cognitive structures onto human interactions. For SI, rationality is socially constructed and historically and culturally embedded. Cultural institutions fundamentally mark the scope of imagination for actors and establish basic underlying preferences and context in which an action is considered ‘appropriate’ – the complete opposite of RCI’s logic of calculation (DiMaggio & Powell 1991; March & Olsen 1989).
Preferences are more complex because political structures might have multiple veto points (thus requiring more bargaining between players). The RCI literature thus also departed from the ‘Walrasian’ general equilibrium techniques, which typified the NCE/RC methods and methodology. As Aoki (2001) has demonstrated, NIE and RCI enormously benefited from advances made in the field of game theory whereby a John Nash-led style of modelling indicated the existence of multiple equilibria. Drawing on the work of Boyd and Richerson (1985), North similarly extensively used these findings to show how culturally derived, widely variant and path-dependent mental models lead to many and not one determinate position.
