Introduction to the Special Issue: Towards the Ecological Style: Embracing Complexity in
Organizational Research Page 1 Organization Studies 32(6) 729 –735 © The Author(s) 2011 …

Judge Posner (2010) offers a substantial agenda for organization economics. He advises us
on how organization economics can shed substantial light on some of the most pressing …

The relationship between markets and states constitutes a decisive subject for the new
institutionalism in the social sciences. It addresses the actually existing variety of …

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 …

1 The roots of the new institutional theory are well known (Scott, 2008)[1]. Meyer and Rowan
(1977) undermined the (then) prevailing imagery of organizations as quasi-rational actors …

Organizational theory emphasizes how new organizational forms are produced by
technological innovation but has glossed over the role of cultural innovation. This chapter …

This volume contrasts the life and problems of organizations in many parts of the world and
highlights the differences between those societies as reflected in their different institutional …

Organizational theory was one of the roots of the “new” economic sociology. In recent years,
a set of complementary research programs have come to the fore that augment our …

This essay offers a critical summation of the use of neo-institutionalism to study
organizations. While institutionalism has succeeded in becoming the dominant theory to …

The question of how new areas of organizational activity emerge and expand is fundamental
to the field of organizational studies. This dissertation sheds light on this process by …