Institutional and neo-institutionalism theory in the international management of organizations

Fil: Vargas-Hernández, José G. Universidad de Guadalajara. Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económicas Administrativas; México. ; The aim of this paper is to analyze the theoretical methodological construction of institutional and neo-institutionalism theories as reality explanations of international management phenomena in organizations. It starts off from the assumption that institutional and neo-institutionalism theories of international management of organizations have evolved in parallel form to the prevalent scientific paradigms of that time. In this paper it is shown that the theoretical methodological developments of the institutional and neo-institutional theories have fluctuated.