Famous personages and also periods in the history… may be reassessed, some being
demoted and others raised up or even rediscovered… Some are found worthless, stale; …

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 …

Institutional theory provides a powerful lens for explaining individual and collective action.
Recently, increased efforts towards understanding how institutions are created have led to a …

Contemporary institutional theorizing in the field of organizations dates back almost forty
years. This particularly describes what are called new or neo-institutionalisms. These terms …

We argue that this paradox is, at least in part, the result of a long-standing tension in
sociology between more materialist, interestdriven explanations of behavior and ideational …

The new institutionalism (NI) developed in the 1970s at a time when an increasing number
of scholars studying organizations began to embrace the notion that much of what …

To those of us on its periphery, organization theory always seems like a picturesque
Kuhnian subfield. Paradigms come and go. Controversy abounds. People argue about" …

'Some argue that institutionalism has become the default theory in management and
organisation studies. Such a status requires continuing refinement and challenge. Drawing …

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 …

This is an important book by two promi-nent advocates of the neo-institutional school of
organizational analysis. Meyer and Scott are organization theorists in a broad …