The history of organization studies is embedded in its times and the ways those times affect
different regions differently. In particular, significant features of the field were molded by the …

In this introductory section, I wish to return to a statement that I have made on various
occasions (eg, Czarniawska, 2006; but see also Shenhav, 2003): in the late 1960s …

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" …

The'institutional'approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of
social life-such as marriage and bureaucracy-act as mechanisms of social control. Such …

When economic sociology appeared on the academic scene in the mid-1980s its
interactions with New Institutional Economics were soon plentiful as well as productive …

We are delighted to introduce this special issue of Organization Studies, the purpose of
which is to develop a deeper understanding of the concept of institutional entrepreneurship …

Institutional theory is a prominent perspective in contemporary organizational research. It
encompasses a large, diverse body of theoretical and empirical work connected by a …

Since the Second World War, the field of organizations studies has grown substantially in
the number of researchers, number of publications, and amount of research produced. It has …

The advancement and growth of institutional theory over the past seven decades has
brought with it an increasing plurality in its theoretical and empirical approaches, along with …

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 …