In his January 2018 article, Cardinale seeks to advance new microfoundations for
institutional theory by reformulating two assumptions underlying the structure versus agency …

The term 'institutional theory'covers a broad body of literature that has grown in prominence
and popularity over the past two decades. But, consistency in defining the bounds of this …

Contemporary institutional theorizing in the field of organizations dates back almost forty
years. This particularly describes what are called new or neo-institutionalisms. These terms …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a new analysis and understanding of the notion
of deinstitutionalization. Deinstitutionalization of taken-for-granted practices as a natural …

This book on institutional theory is based on the ideas of Max Weber. It is written by one of
the most influential German sociologists, M. Rainer Lepsius. The Weber expert was editor of …

Hirsch and Lounsbury 97 outcome of any conflict, places it in the ironic position of adopting
the very functionalist and Panglossian views that Munir notes it criticized as the problem with …

The philosophical foundations of institutional theory continue to be obscured by the problem
of meta-theory, the ontological ideas that necessarily underpin institutional theory. These …

To the provocations by Munir (in this issue) and others who call on (neo) institutional theory
to become more critical, I rebut by asking: Hasn't institutional theory always been critical?! In …

Modern sociology pioneered the study of institutions as a system of interrelated constraints.
The view of institutions as humanly devised constraints on social action has served as a …

The 'new'institutionalism emerged on the scene at the end of the 1970s. With its focus on
more cognitive and cultural explanations for organizational forms and legitimacy as a …