1) Introduction: Where do Organizations and Institutions Come From? Much of the social
science literature on institutions has the character of a play that begins with the second act …

Much of the social science literature on institutions resembles a play that begins with the
second act, taking both plot and narrative as an accomplished fact. very little research asks …

Most research on the emergence of high-tech clusters samples on successful cases, and
works backwards to trace a narrative, often highlighting the role of specific individuals or …

What explains the dramatic technical and social changes observed in much of the world
during the past century? Responses to this kind of question vary, depending on the degree …

Recent critiques of social science have emphasized their ties to the concerns of academic
disciplines usually labelled as humanities. Building on this literature, this paper argues that …

Any scientific discipline experiences a life cycle. As a specific discipline, the sociology of
organizations may well have reached a stage of maturity and entered a declining return of …

Given the socially constructed nature of social phenomena, such as scientific knowledge
and economic systems, and the considerable differences in how they are organized in …

Organization studies became institutionalized as a distinct research field in North America in
the 1960s as leading universities expanded to include the new behavioural and …

Volume 49 Number 7 March 2006 889-896© 2006 Sage Publications 10.1177/
0002764205284796 http://abs. sagepub. com hosted at http://online. sagepub. com verge on …

The focus on institutions as a foundation concept in the social sciences has given rise to a
variety of new institutionalist approaches. Not since the behavioral revolution of the 1950s …