Institutions on the ground
WW Powell - Microfoundations of institutions, 2019 - emerald.com
Abstract Knowledge of how institutions “work on the ground” is central to understanding how
macro-pressures shape organizations and their participants. Four examples of the interplay …
macro-pressures shape organizations and their participants. Four examples of the interplay …
Opening the black box: The microfoundations of institutions
In the first edition of this handbook, Powell and Colyvas (2008) argued that much could be
gained by making the microfoundations of institutional theory more explicit. That chapter …
gained by making the microfoundations of institutional theory more explicit. That chapter …
Institutions and Their Social Construction: A Cross-Level Perspective
W Ocasio - Organization Theory, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Defining institutions as taken-for-granted systems of roles and interactions, this paper
presents a novel theoretical integration of hereto disparate micro and macro approaches to …
presents a novel theoretical integration of hereto disparate micro and macro approaches to …
Bringing society back in again: The importance of social interaction in an inhabited institutionalism
T Hallett, A Hawbaker - Microfoundations of institutions, 2019 - emerald.com
The “micro” turn in institutional research is a welcome development in a field that has
commonly adopted a macro approach to the study of institutions. Nevertheless, research in …
commonly adopted a macro approach to the study of institutions. Nevertheless, research in …
Towards a theory of micro-institutional processes: Forgotten roots, links to social-psychological research, and new ideas
In this chapter, the authors weave together a set of ideas that lead us closer to a more
general institutional theory–one that embraces multiple levels of analysis, including the …
general institutional theory–one that embraces multiple levels of analysis, including the …
The case for an inhabited institutionalism in organizational research: Interaction, coupling, and change reconsidered
T Hallett, A Hawbaker - Theory and Society, 2021 - Springer
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 …
continue to vex institutional theory: How can we account for local activity, agency, and …
Intentionality, not just agency: bringing intended meaning back into the micro–macro institutionalization processes
Y Li - Culture and Organization, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Organization theory and organizational institutionalism have moved toward a more
generative understanding of agency to better account for the relation between the …
generative understanding of agency to better account for the relation between the …
What do we talk about when we talk about microfoundations? Conceptualizations of actor and multi-level accounts of the micro in institutional processes
The growing interest in the microfoundations of institutions is a significant, yet surprising
development given that the theoretical tradition's original insight was to account for macro …
development given that the theoretical tradition's original insight was to account for macro …
Integrating and complicating the micro and macro “foundations” of institutions: Toward a more optometric institutionalism and an institutionalist optometry
CWJ Steele, TR Hannigan - Macrofoundations: Exploring the …, 2020 - emerald.com
Talk of “macrofoundations” helps foreground the constitutive and contextualizing powers of
institutions–dynamics that are inadvertently obscured by the imagery of microfoundations …
institutions–dynamics that are inadvertently obscured by the imagery of microfoundations …