英文摘要 |
The ‘successful’ result is inspirationally presented in institutional change; however, ‘unsuccessful’ outcomes are perhaps more prevalent. Yet research has overlooked why and how the regret of ‘unfinished revolution and incomplete change’ emerges from the agency performing. To unpack the ambiguous causes of this regret, this study adopts the theoretical lens of institutionalization and institutional work to engage in dialogues between structure and action. This study examines the Dihua Chinese New Year Bazaar, critically tagged as a ‘night market’ in Taipei, nd collects data from field study with the guidance of participant observation and historical ethnography. This study reveals that the ‘agency loss’ emerges because the internal dissociations and discrepancies in actors, actions, and context within the agency mechanism. The agency loss then results in no accumulation of sufficient momentum to change, and keeps a deteriorated institution in the pre-deinstitutionalization stage. In closing, this study discusses theoretical and practical implications. |