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 …

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 …

In this article I argue that the quest to establish microfoundations for institutional theory is
hindered by two assumptions on which it currently rests: that structure simply constrains and …

Institutional theory is an increasingly utilized theoretical lens for entrepreneurship research.
However, while institutional theory has proven highly useful, its use has reached a point that …

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

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 editors of this volume asked me to write about the uses and misuses of institutional
theory–a quest that provided me with a perverse pleasure. In my reading, the most …

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 …

To compare and contrast institutional theories used in organizational analysis, the
theoretical frameworks and arguments of leading contributors to institutional theory are …

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 …