Habitus Revisited

The author suggests that if researchers in the field of new institutional analysis of organizations wish to address man in real life as an actor, then a focus on the methodology of the approach is necessary. Being historically bounded, the methodology faces two major obstacles when attempting to address man: how it operates within the concept of time and, closely related thereto, how it only addresses man's practice post hoc. This article suggests a methodology based on the poststructural conceptualization of practice.