A challenge facing neo-institutionalism is to detail how pre-existing institutional conditions
and alternative institutional projects influence the creation of new organizational forms. We …

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 …

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

Much of the social science literature on institutions resembles a play that begins with the
second act, taking both plot and narrative as an accomplished fact. very little research asks …

We review institutional theory to assess the direction of theory and research on institutional
structures and processes. Our primary goal is to suggest an overall frame within which a …

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 …

In this chapter, I take a perspective on institutional theory that moves beyond constraint. I
look at how institutions enable organizational identity construction by supplying a set of …

Calls for reintroducing agency, politics and contestation into institutional analysis are now
legion, spanning nearly two decades since DiMaggio's (1988) classic piece, and gaining …

2) How has organization theory developed over time, and what structure has the field taken?
What assumptions does knowledge produced in organization theory incorporate, and what …

In this review article, we reflect upon recent developments in institutional theory with
particular emphasis on first, how organizational fields have been conceived and second, on …