We argue that in order to overcome the reductionism and essentialism in institutional theory
there is a need to acknowledge that institutions and social actors are co‐constitutive and co …

From the outset, attention to the embeddedness of organizations in wider societal contexts
has been a trademark of the new institutionalism in organizational analysis. Different strands …

The'institutional'approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of
social life-such as marriage and bureaucracy-act as mechanisms of social control. Such …

Institutions are social structures that are characterized by a high degree of resilience (Scott,
2001). They have a self-activating nature (Lawrence, Hardy 86 Phillips, 2002; Jepperson …

This article presents academic business research, particularly focusing on explorations into
the concept of institutional theory. The author seeks to examine under what conditions and …

The notion of 'partial organization', as introduced by Ahrne and Brunsson (2011), has
contributed to organization theory in various significant ways: First, the concept has widened …

The focus on institutions as a foundation concept in the social sciences has given rise to a
variety of new institutionalist approaches. Not since the behavioral revolution of the 1950s …

To the provocations by Munir (in this issue) and others who call on (neo) institutional theory
to become more critical, I rebut by asking: Hasn't institutional theory always been critical?! In …

Just as Collins (1981) demonstrates that microsociological presuppositions elucidate
macrosociology, the reverse holds as well. Fundamental axioms are the existence of (1) a …

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