Although the cottage industry of neoinstitutional research gained its momentum through a
conceptual architecture that was centred on a bifurcation of technological/material forces …

Studies show that discourses are important in legitimating emerging fields. However, we still
lack understanding of how potential participants' interpretations of discourses shape their …

“Grand challenges” are complex problems with far-reaching societal implications that lack a
clear solution. To make progress, diverse communities often coalesce around an ambitious …

Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in
organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the …

How do radical technological fields become naturalized and taken for granted? This is a
fundamental question given both the positive and negative hype surrounding the …

This chapter uses the case of American think tanks to develop the idea of a “boundary
organization,” or a formal organization that acquires its distinctiveness and efficacy from its …

How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has
evolved Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations …

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Research in the sociology of science has increasingly begun to acknowledge the role that
external influences play in shaping the boundaries and content of science. However, a …