If institutions are durable, how do they change from within and from without? We build on the
emerging synthesis of social movement theory and institutional theory and articulate how …

While formally and informally recognized as being central to community action, the research
and theoretical literature provide little insight into the processes behind the emergence of …

Theories of institutional change have paid limited attention to the ways in which relations
between institutional fields might facilitate or hinder institutional change. I introduce inter …

Calls for reintroducing agency, politics and contestation into institutional analysis are now
legion, spanning nearly two decades since DiMaggio's (1988) classic piece, and gaining …

How does organizations' embeddedness in social and cultural communities influence their
behavior? And how has this changed with recent communication technology advances and …

In this paper I uncover the routine, ongoing practices that sustain institutional multiplicity.
Drawing on a comparative study of the two high-tech conferences held in Israel in 2002, I …

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0002764205284796 http://abs. sagepub. com hosted at http://online. sagepub. com verge on …

This paper advances knowledge on how the forms of institutional logics that emerge and
become venerated among members of a singular organization in a heterogeneous field are …

In this article, we present an institutionalist organizational perspective on formal
gatekeeping, arguing along two fronts: First, identifying gatekeepers provides useful analytic …