A central and distinctive feature of the mission of Strategic Organization is to publish
groundbreaking research at the intersection of the fields of strategic management and …

The distinctive mission of Strategic Organization is to bridge the fields of strategic
management and organization theory. This first Special Issue Call for Papers on “Strategic …

Organizations face institutional complexity whenever they confront incompatible
prescriptions from multiple institutional logics. Our interest is in how plural institutional logics …

In this paper we share the behind-the-scenes story of the development of our paper “When
worlds collide: The internal dynamics of organizational responses to conflicting institutional …

This article unpacks the notion of institutional complexity and highlights the distinct sets of
challenges confronting hybrid structural arrangements. The framework identifies three …

In this study, we examined responses to institutional complexity by analyzing when and how
organizations respond to a coercive institutional demand from a powerful constituent when …

We present a framework that deconstructs institutional complexity and articulates the range
of hybrid arrangements that organizations adopt to cope with multiple institutional demands …

Resources, routines and capabilities have served, and continue to serve, as the staple diet
of much strategic organization research. There is nothing at all wrong with this, but how …

The title is intentionally provocative. Institutional theory can, of course, be critical. It is critical
of theories that are insufficiently attentive to how human behavior becomes institutionalized …

A commonly held view is that strategic organization theories progress as a result of a
Popperian process of bold conjectures and systematic refutations. However, our field also …