Processes of emergence for new organizational forms have developed along three lines:
processes that emphasize identity (Fiol and Romanelli 2012), processes that focus on …

Although extant theory has illuminated conditions under which organizations mimic each
other in form and practice, little research examines how organizations seek to differentiate …

Rather quietly over the last decade, a large body of literature has emerged to consider how
new forms of organization arise and become established in the organizational community …

This essay examines two major perspectives on organizations that have been prominent
since the 1970s: ecology and institutionalism, both of which emerged as reactions against …

The evolution of new organizational forms has attracted growing theoretical and empirical
attention, but little research has considered the microsocial processes that promote the …

The concept ofnew organizational forms' has been with us for over 20 years, but little
attention has been given to the diverse assumptions underlying various researchers' use of …

We examine the emergence of an organizational form, charter schools, in Oakland,
California. We link field-level logics to organizational founding identities using topic …

The ability of societies to respond to social problems may hinge crucially on the diversity of
organizational forms, and in the long run, in a dynamic environment, diversity can be …

This article introduces a new ecological approach to the study of form emergence based on
the notion of an organizational community—a bounded set of forms with related identities …

Organizational evolution has become a keystone of wider organizational sciences as it
seeks to understand the emergence and sustained presence of organizational forms within …