CHARLENE ZIETSMA AND BRENT MCKNIGHT unique contribution of institutional theory is
the insight that organizations need legitimacy as well as technical efficiency to survive and …

A longstanding question in organization research is what makes organizations more or less
similar to each other. Early organization theorists pointed out that organizations that share …

In this chapter, we review the emerging and rapidly growing body of organizational research
on institutional entrepreneurship. This term refers to the 'activities of actors who have an …

This paper argues that research in organization theory has seen a shift in orientation from
paradigm-driven work to problem-driven work since the late 1980s. A number of paradigms …

H annan, Carroll, Dundon, and Torres's article on the European automobile industry,"
Organizational Evolution in a Multinational Context"(1995, henceforward Hannan et al.) is …

I explore the interrelations between methodology and theory by examining how specific
research strategies afford specific lines of theorizing. My case study is recent studies in …

The title is intentionally provocative. Institutional theory can, of course, be critical. It is critical
of theories that are insufficiently attentive to how human behavior becomes institutionalized …

Over the past couple of decades, research in organizational sociology has shifted away from
the contextual richness of action perspectives toward more structuralist paradigms …

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 …

So institutional theory and critical theory share a broad “family resemblance.” They differ,
however, in their respective trajectories within management studies. While both start as …