Organizational fields undergo upheavals. Shifting industry boundaries, new network forms,
emerging sectors, and volatile ecosystems have become the stuff of everyday organizational …

Organizations in the twentieth century have cerned with three broad themes: First, the rise of
become the most powerful force in industrialized organizations-that is, how did we come to …

The study of organizations has been guided by a paradigm consisting of interrelated
theoretical, methodological, and practical commitments. Theoretically, a problematic of …

For the past half-century, the study of organizations has been an active area within
sociology. I provide an overview of the emergence of this specialty during the second half of …

Much of the social science literature on institutions resembles a play that begins with the
second act, taking both plot and narrative as an accomplished fact. very little research asks …

Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is
undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first …

Over the past couple of decades, research in organizational sociology has shifted away from
the contextual richness of action perspectives toward more structuralist paradigms …

While it is difficult to capture with any precision the amoeba-like contours of an intellectual
movement, it appears safe to conclude that until the late 1940s formal organizations did not …

Institutions now occupy a central position in most accounts of macro-organizational change
(Greenwood et al., 2008). Institutional theory posits that organizations are subject not only to …