Theories of institutional change have paid limited attention to the ways in which relations
between institutional fields might facilitate or hinder institutional change. I introduce inter …

Previous research has shown that institutional fields evolve around issues, but has devoted
less attention to explain why certain issues trigger substantial field-level changes while …

Institutional theory rests on a rejection of reductionism. Instead of reducing higher‐order
phenomena to aggregates of behavior, institutional theory reverses this causal imagery. It …

Although researchers have acknowledged that not all institutional change results from the
intentional efforts of relatively reflexive actors, we lack an explanation of how mundane …

" New Institutional" theories have proliferated across the social sciences. While they have
substantial disagreements, they agree that institutions are created to produce local social …

The concept of an institutional field is one of the cornerstones of institutional theory, and yet
the concept has been stretched both theoretically and empirically, making consolidation of …

This article develops a relational model of institutional work and complexity. This model
advances current institutional debates on institutional complexity and institutional work in …

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 …

Organizational fields are a central construct in institutional theory and the notion of shared
meaning is integral to the definition of “field.” In this review, we discuss how institutional …

This paper makes the case for an inhabited institutionalism by pondering questions that
continue to vex institutional theory: How can we account for local activity, agency, and …