HE concept of institutional work describes" the purposive action of individuals and
organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions"(Lawrence & …

In this paper, we discuss an alternative focus for institutional studies of organization-the
study of institutional work. Research on institutional work examines the practices of …

Institutions are social structures that are characterized by a high degree of resilience (Scott,
2001). They have a self-activating nature (Lawrence, Hardy 86 Phillips, 2002; Jepperson …

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 …

The'institutional'approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of
social life-such as marriage and bureaucracy-act as mechanisms of social control. Such …

The study of institutional work has emerged as a dynamic research domain within
organization studies. In this essay, we situate the papers published in the Special Issue. We …

Institutional approaches to organization studies focus attention on the relationships among
organizations and the fields in which they operate, highlighting in particular the role of …

'Institutional work'has evolved from a concept introduced to capture a set of actions
described in institutional research, to a perspective on the relationship between institutions …

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 …

The term 'institutional entrepreneurship'refers to the 'activities of actors who have an interest
in particular institutional arrangements and who leverage resources to create new …