This chapter aims to contribute to the emerging literature that calls for a bridging of the
variants of institutional theory and public policy theory (Bakir, 2009, 2013, Chaps. 2 and 4 …

The variant of new institutionalism that is our focus is a pan-disciplinary theory that asserts
that actors pursue their interests by making choices within institutional constraints. We …

In chapter 6 (a) Professor Weick has argued that enactment is a “roomy framework” that
reminds people of a central fact of organizational life:“people often produce part of the …

New institutionalism, constituting a middle‐range theory in the social sciences over the past
decade, has failed to explain the ways whereby an institutional change takes place. Viewing …

Institutions impose constraints on us all. In recent years the institution of the university press
has constrained the publication of edited volumes, and the appearance of this particular …

In the literature of Sociology, one seldom finds references today to terms like grand vs
middle range theory, structural-functionalism, and social Darwinism. But, for more than two …

the body of literature on institutional fragmentation and interlinkages has become quite
extensive over the last 10-15 years, especially in global environmental governance …

For almost two decades, scholars have stressed the need to make the microfoundations of
institutional theory more explicit (DiMaggio and Powell, 1991; Zucker, 1991). Curiously …

The issue of legitimation has become the trademark of neo-institutional research, both
conceptually and empirically. Competitive features, by contrast, have attracted much less …

Recent literature on institutional theory is replete with calls for greater use of experimental
designs to explore the micro-foundations of institutions (Bitektine, 2011; Green, 2004; …