WW Powell, C Brandtner - Handbook of contemporary sociological theory, 2016 - Springer
This chapter advances a recursive view of organizations as both sites of important social outcomes, such as inequality, persistence, change, as well as embeddedness, and drivers …
[Excerpt] In 1991, DiMaggio and Powell observed: Institutional theory presents a paradox. Institutional analysis is as old as Emile Durkheim's exhortation to study'social facts as things' …
Helmut K. Anheier: Dear Professor Powell, you are one the most prominent sociologists in the United States today and very influentially globally in organizational studies. There are …
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 past few years have seen a plethora of debates regarding the nature of theorizing in organization research and the position of sociological theory therein (Besio et al., 2020; …
Sociological studies of complex organizations chronicle a long history of analytic concern with the linkages between wider societal arrangements and the structure and activities of …
WW Powell, P Bromley - International encyclopedia of the social & …, 2015 - researchgate.net
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 …
HA Haveman, R Wetts - Sociology Compass, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We review three perspectives—demographic, relational, and cultural—that have dominated sociological research on organizations during the past four decades. These perspectives …
Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the …