Rather quietly over the last decade, a large body of literature has emerged to consider how
new forms of organization arise and become established in the organizational community …

When we wrote the editorial essay in the first issue of Organization Science (Daft and Lewin
1990), we stated that our mission in launching the journal was to broaden the boundaries of …

The ability of societies to respond to social problems may hinge crucially on the diversity of
organizational forms, and in the long run, in a dynamic environment, diversity can be …

The new institutionalism in sociology and organizational research is best represented as an
extended family of scholars that share a broadly defined theoretical orientation. The multiple …

The evolution of new organizational forms has attracted growing theoretical and empirical
attention, but little research has considered the microsocial processes that promote the …

This paper distinguishes between two ecological perspectives on organizational evolution:
population ecology and community ecology. The perspectives adopt different levels of …

Sociological studies of complex organizations chronicle a long history of analytic concern
with the linkages between wider societal arrangements and the structure and activities of …

Over the past decade, a new structuralism has begun to emerge in organizational theory.
This exciting new research program draws inspiration from the social structural tradition in …

The sociological study of organizations encompasses both planned and formal
organizations as well as spontaneous and informal ones. Sociologists examine …

Department of Management, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 suppose one might
have persuaded oneself that this was but the replacement of an ancient Itranquility, or at …