This chapter advances a recursive view of organizations as both sites of important social
outcomes, such as inequality, persistence, change, as well as embeddedness, and drivers …

This essay provides insights into the reasons why efforts to integrate micro and macro
perspectives continue to face challenges. We incorporate the reflections of several …

Although new institutional theory (also new institutionalism or neoinstitutionalism) seems to
be a widely accepted framework for actorcentered studies dealing with organizations, state …

Although explicit attention to the role of small groups has waned in sociology, an empirical
understanding of the interaction order is increasing. A focus on the group—the meso-level of …

• How can fallible human beings achieve and sustain self-governing entities and self-
governing ways of life as well as sustaining ecological systems? To address these questions …

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 …

This special issue had its roots in a symposium organized by Tammar Zilber and Roy
Suddaby for the Academy of Management 2003 annual meetings in Seattle. The symposium …

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 …

I develop a model linking specific microinteraction dynamics between members of different
institutional fields and the genesis of new practices. The model centers on the concept of …

Students of organizations and social movements recently have highlighted the potential
fruitfulness of examining the ways in which ideas and research developments in the …