Since the publication of foundational analyses in the late 1970s and early 1980s (DiMaggio
& Powell, 1983; Meyer & Rowan, 1977; Zucker, 1977), neo-institutional theory (NIT) has …

In his January 2018 article, Cardinale seeks to advance new microfoundations for
institutional theory by reformulating two assumptions underlying the structure versus agency …

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

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; …

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 double volume presents the state of the art in research on the microfoundations of
institutions. In this introductory chapter, we develop an overview of where the emerging …

Institutional theory is becoming an increasingly dominant paradigm in organizational studies
(Alvesson and Spicer, 2018; Vogel, 2012)." It is now possible to have a career—from PhD to …

Harmon, Haack, and Roulet (2019) perceptively identify the conceptual core of my January
2018 article (Cardinale, 2018): redefining the agency versus structure problem in a way that …

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 …