Identities provide a human link between macro-level mechanisms and microfoundations of
institutions. Yet, as the literature on identity within the microfoundations of institutions has …

Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from
above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns …

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 …

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 …

Two key aspects of institutional work are the entrepreneurship which accompanies the rise
of new institutions and the decline which occurs as they move toward deinstitutionalization …

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0002764205284796 http://abs. sagepub. com hosted at http://online. sagepub. com verge on …

We argue that accounts of relationships among actors, actorhood and institutions are
predominantly based on a spatial metaphor of actors operating within institutions. We outline …

Institutionalization–the activities and mechanisms by which structures, models, rules, and
problem-solving routines become established as a takenfor-granted part of everyday social …

The relationship between power and institutions is an intimate one. Institutions exist to the
extent that they are powerful–the extent to which they affect the behaviors, beliefs and …

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