Review Essay Page 1 Review Essay SOCIOLOGY WITHOUT SOCIAL STRUCTURE:
NEOINSTITUTIONAL THEORY MEETS BRAVE NEW WORLD1 Institutions and …

The new institutionalism in sociology and organizational research is best represented as an
extended family of scholars that share a broadly defined theoretical orientation. The multiple …

The variant of new institutionalism that is our focus is a pan-disciplinary theory that asserts
that actors pursue their interests by making choices within institutional constraints. We …

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 focus on institutions as a foundational concept in the social sciences has given rise to a
variety of new institutionalist approaches. Not since the behavioral revolution of the 1950s …

To those of us on its periphery, organization theory always seems like a picturesque
Kuhnian subfield. Paradigms come and go. Controversy abounds. People argue about" …

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 …

The new institutionalism in sociology is part of an emerging paradigm in the social sciences.
Interest in the new institutional paradigm is being driven by advances in interdisciplinary …

This is an important book by two promi-nent advocates of the neo-institutional school of
organizational analysis. Meyer and Scott are organization theorists in a broad …

Over the past three decades, Meyer, Jepperson, and colleagues have contributed to the
development of one of the leading approaches in social theory, by analyzing the cultural …