The institutional theory of organizations developed by Scott, Meyer and their colleagues
over the past two decades has had an enormous impact on organizational theory and …

This review is not structured in the usual way--a departure from tradition that merits an
explanation. Literature reviews generally have a linear, often chronological structure, with …

Organization indexes considerably more than the structures that lift us out of 'bare life'.
Organization is also intimately, and utterly, connected to thought. While many, and by no …

To those of us on its periphery, organization theory always seems like a picturesque
Kuhnian subfield. Paradigms come and go. Controversy abounds. People argue about" …

Executive Overview Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business
Administration at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and …

I review my scholarly career, focusing first on the places and people important to my
development as an organizational sociologist. Then, drawing on distinctions proposed by …

How can an airplane land on another continent? How can we know that exotic fruits at the
grocery shop have been produced in a relatively fair way? How is it that we can learn about …

Contemporary institutional theorizing in the field of organizations dates back almost forty
years. This particularly describes what are called new or neo-institutionalisms. These terms …

The book explores how various social settings are partially organized even when they do
not form part of a formal organization. It also shows how even formal organizations may be …