To test the implications of field work in a psychiatric hospital for children, this study focuses
on the effects of network properties of organizational units, personal network position, and …

Organizational sociologists often treat institutions as macro cultural logics, representations,
and schemata, with less consideration for how institutions are” inhabited “(Scully and Creed …

The growing popularity of institutional work suggests a broad agentic turn in institutional
approaches to organizational studies. We briefly describe the contribution of the evolving …

The social sciences and institutional theory have seen the proliferation of the term actor and
the profusion of its meanings. Despite the importance and ubiquity of actor in institutional …

CHARLENE ZIETSMA AND BRENT MCKNIGHT unique contribution of institutional theory is
the insight that organizations need legitimacy as well as technical efficiency to survive and …

Agency and institutions are essential concepts within institutional theory. In this Perspectives
issue, we draw on a select group of Organization Studie s articles to provide an overview of …

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 …

The concepts of structure and agency are central to sociological theory. Structures are
typically seen as the more fixed and enduring aspects of the social landscape. As used by …

Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of
acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to …

This chapter traces developments in historical institutionalist approaches to institutional
change. Originally, historical (like rational choice and sociological) institutionalism focused …