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 theory attends to the deeper and more resilient aspects of social structure. It
considers the processes by which structures, including schemas, rules, norms, and routines …

The growth of institutionalist research within organizational studies has been nothing short
of remarkable. The institutional perspective has come to dominate submissions to the …

The growing popularity of institutional work suggests a broad agentic turn in institutional
approaches to organizational studies. We briefly describe the contribution of the evolving …

Since the early writings of DiMaggio and Powell (1983), Meyer and Rowan (1977) and
Zucker (1987), many insights have been gained under the broad umbrella of institutional …

This essay offers a critical summation of the use of neo-institutionalism to study
organizations. While institutionalism has succeeded in becoming the dominant theory to …

Hirsch and Lounsbury 97 outcome of any conflict, places it in the ironic position of adopting
the very functionalist and Panglossian views that Munir notes it criticized as the problem with …

G reenwood, Hinings and Whetten (2014) present two major criticisms of current institutional
scholarship, and see need for a broad redirection: institutional organization theory, they …

In his January 2018 article, Cardinale seeks to advance new microfoundations for
institutional theory by reformulating two assumptions underlying the structure versus agency …

The term 'institutional theory'covers a broad body of literature that has grown in prominence
and popularity over the past two decades. But, consistency in defining the bounds of this …