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' …

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 …

We review three perspectives—demographic, relational, and cultural—that have dominated
sociological research on organizations during the past four decades. These perspectives …

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 …

Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in
organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the …

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 …

Institutional scholars are not intellectually shy. We are willing to take on the tough
fundamental questions. Our subject is nothing more nor less than understanding the basis of …

Contemporary institutional theorizing in the field of organizations dates back almost forty
years. This particularly describes what are called new or neo-institutionalisms. These terms …

The sociological study of organizations encompasses both planned and formal
organizations as well as spontaneous and informal ones. Sociologists examine …