To investigate how participants shape a field's social and symbolic boundaries over time, I
conducted an in-depth longitudinal study of five core and peripheral communities in the …

Although the cottage industry of neoinstitutional research gained its momentum through a
conceptual architecture that was centred on a bifurcation of technological/material forces …

Studies show that discourses are important in legitimating emerging fields. However, we still
lack understanding of how potential participants' interpretations of discourses shape their …

Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in
organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the …

“Grand challenges” are complex problems with far-reaching societal implications that lack a
clear solution. To make progress, diverse communities often coalesce around an ambitious …

How do radical technological fields become naturalized and taken for granted? This is a
fundamental question given both the positive and negative hype surrounding the …

Contemporary organizations increasingly rely on images, logos, videos, building and office
design, building materials, physical product design and a range of other material and visual …

This chapter uses the case of American think tanks to develop the idea of a “boundary
organization,” or a formal organization that acquires its distinctiveness and efficacy from its …

How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has
evolved Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations …