Talk of “macrofoundations” helps foreground the constitutive and contextualizing powers of
institutions–dynamics that are inadvertently obscured by the imagery of microfoundations …

In recent years, institutionalists have devoted increasing attention to the so-called
“microfoundations” of institutions: that is, to the everyday activities and dynamics through …

The “micro” turn in institutional research is a welcome development in a field that has
commonly adopted a macro approach to the study of institutions. Nevertheless, research in …

This chapter provides a summary of the closing plenary at the 2018 Alberta Institutions
Conference in which four scholars–Markus Höllerer, Marc Schneiberg, Patricia Thornton …

This paper makes the case for an inhabited institutionalism by pondering questions that
continue to vex institutional theory: How can we account for local activity, agency, and …

Introducing the essentials of an institutional perspective on organization (s), we emphasize
the need for multi-level analysis and stress the co-constitutive character of the macro and the …

There may not be a concept so central to sociology, yet so vaguely defined in its
contemporary usages, than institution. In Revisiting Institutionalism in Sociology, Abrutyn …

As key socio-cultural building blocks of human societies, institutions are distinct from
organizations and, hence, are central to sociological inquiry. In recent decades, however …

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 …

The authors discuss the microfoundations of institutional theory, specifically as
microfoundations are manifested in this volume of Research in the Sociology of …