Since the early writings of DiMaggio and Powell (1983), Meyer and Rowan (1977) and
Zucker (1987), many insights have been gained under the broad umbrella of institutional …

The term 'institutional theory'covers a broad body of literature that has grown in prominence
and popularity over the past two decades. But, consistency in defining the bounds of this …

The growth of institutionalist research within organizational studies has been nothing short
of remarkable. The institutional perspective has come to dominate submissions to the …

Institutional approaches to organization studies focus attention on the relationships among
organizations and the fields in which they operate, highlighting in particular the role of …

HE concept of institutional work describes" the purposive action of individuals and
organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions"(Lawrence & …

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 …

Recent years have seen an increasing mutual engagement between institutional and
strategy-as-practice scholars who realize that they can learn from each other to address …

The title is intentionally provocative. Institutional theory can, of course, be critical. It is critical
of theories that are insufficiently attentive to how human behavior becomes institutionalized …

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 …

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 …