[2] Similarly, in the fields of education and public administration and governance studies, the term usually refers to how school boards and governmental agencies implement policies.
[8] Another variant is influenced by organizational sociology and seeks to integrate Max Weber’s work on bureaucratic mentality.
[13] This approach to institutional analysis is also influenced by thinkers such as Cornelius Castoriadis[14] and Michel Foucault.
[15] The main thrust of this approach is the identification of hidden forms of power that institute behaviors and organizational procedures.
Felix Guattari also proposed the use of the term in works such as The Molecular Revolution (1984), as institutional psychotherapy had evolved since its inception in the 1950s.