We analyze the process of institutionalization, arguing that it is the outcome of the self-
reinforcing feedback dynamics of heightened legitimacy and deeper taken-for-grantedness …

Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from
above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns …

Students of organizations and social movements recently have highlighted the potential
fruitfulness of examining the ways in which ideas and research developments in the …

Management research has increasingly explored the domains of ecosystems, platforms, and
open/user/distributed innovation—governance structures focused on engaging with external …

Recent literature suggests that elites are increasingly fragmented and divided. Yet there is
very little empirical research that maps the distinctions between different elite groups. This …

A challenge facing neo-institutionalism is to detail how pre-existing institutional conditions
and alternative institutional projects influence the creation of new organizational forms. We …

Agency and institutions are essential concepts within institutional theory. In this Perspectives
issue, we draw on a select group of Organization Studie s articles to provide an overview of …

Organizational sociologists often treat institutions as macro cultural logics, representations,
and schemata, with less consideration for how institutions are” inhabited “(Scully and Creed …

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 …

Previous research has shown that institutional fields evolve around issues, but has devoted
less attention to explain why certain issues trigger substantial field-level changes while …