Over the last year, two significant books have been published which seek to consolidate the
neoinstitutionalist approach to organization studies. In this review section, we provide firstly …

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 …

This paper argues that research in organization theory has seen a shift in orientation from
paradigm-driven work to problem-driven work since the late 1980s. A number of paradigms …

This article critically approaches various neo-institutional accounts of the process of formal
organizing. While acknowledging the importance of the overall orientation marked by neo …

We trace the development of neo-institutional theory in Organization Studies from a marginal
topic to the dominant theory. We show how it has evolved from infancy, through adolescence …

Since the publication of foundational analyses in the late 1970s and early 1980s (DiMaggio
& Powell, 1983; Meyer & Rowan, 1977; Zucker, 1977), neo-institutional theory (NIT) has …

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 …

In the fall of 2006, we wrote a chapter for the first edition of this Handbook introducing the
concept of institutional pluralism and developed a set of arguments about the 'organizational …

1 The roots of the new institutional theory are well known (Scott, 2008)[1]. Meyer and Rowan
(1977) undermined the (then) prevailing imagery of organizations as quasi-rational actors …

Although dominant approaches in organizational theory adopt an open system logic
(Thompson, 1967) and recognize that organizations are exposed to and dependent upon …