Why (and How) Institutional Theory Can Be Critical: Addressing the Challenge to
Institutional Theory’s Critical Turn - Jaco Lok, 2019 Skip to main content Intended for …

The historical development of organizational institutionalism has been marked by the
socalled cognitive turn (DiMaggio & Powell, 1991), with a particular theoretical emphasis on …

We review institutional theory to assess the direction of theory and research on institutional
structures and processes. Our primary goal is to suggest an overall frame within which a …

Melding key concepts from structuration theory with the organizational field framework, this
article builds on current work establishing a micro foundation for neoinstitutional …

I explore the interrelations between methodology and theory by examining how specific
research strategies afford specific lines of theorizing. My case study is recent studies in …

Purpose The stakeholder theory encompasses instrumental and normative varieties whose
mutual relationship remains unclear and exhibits a classic tension between rational self …

Institutional theory has made tremendous gains in recent years. However, while it has
borrowed concepts and insights from more critical perspectives, it has resisted the import of …

This paper examines the possibilities and challenges of combining method theories in
accounting research through an analysis of studies which combine insights from institutional …

Institutional theories of organizations in sociology have focused on exteriority and constraint
over the past three decades, in keeping with their roots in macrosocial theory (Parsons …

2) How has organization theory developed over time, and what structure has the field taken?
What assumptions does knowledge produced in organization theory incorporate, and what …