For almost two decades, scholars have stressed the need to make the microfoundations of
institutional theory more explicit (DiMaggio and Powell, 1991; Zucker, 1991). Curiously …

Institutionalization–the activities and mechanisms by which structures, models, rules, and
problem-solving routines become established as a takenfor-granted part of everyday social …

In the first edition of this handbook, Powell and Colyvas (2008) argued that much could be
gained by making the microfoundations of institutional theory more explicit. That chapter …

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 …

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 …

Institutional theory is a prominent perspective in contemporary organizational research. It
encompasses a large, diverse body of theoretical and empirical work connected by a …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …