In this reflective piece, the author engages with several themes that are oriented to the past,
present, and future of institutional theory, to offer fresh insights for the next generation of …

In this chapter, the authors weave together a set of ideas that lead us closer to a more
general institutional theory–one that embraces multiple levels of analysis, including the …

The concept of institution has been used by scholars from across a number of disciplines to
explain a wide variety of phenomena. However, the philosophical roots of this concept have …

Defining institutions as taken-for-granted systems of roles and interactions, this paper
presents a novel theoretical integration of hereto disparate micro and macro approaches to …

Recent literature on institutional theory is replete with calls for greater use of experimental
designs to explore the micro-foundations of institutions (Bitektine, 2011; Green, 2004; …

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 this article I argue that the quest to establish microfoundations for institutional theory is
hindered by two assumptions on which it currently rests: that structure simply constrains and …

Organization theory and organizational institutionalism have moved toward a more
generative understanding of agency to better account for the relation between the …

I explore the interrelations between methodology and theory by examining how specific
research strategies afford specific lines of theorizing. My case study is recent studies in …