The authors discuss the microfoundations of institutional theory, specifically as
microfoundations are manifested in this volume of Research in the Sociology of …

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 …

This double volume presents the state of the art in research on the microfoundations of
institutions. In this introductory chapter, we develop an overview of where the emerging …

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 …

Since the publication of foundational analyses in the late 1970s and early 1980s (DiMaggio
& Powell, 1983; Meyer & Rowan, 1977; Zucker, 1977), neo-institutional theory (NIT) has …

In recent years, institutionalists have devoted increasing attention to the so-called
“microfoundations” of institutions: that is, to the everyday activities and dynamics through …

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 …

Although new institutional theory (also new institutionalism or neoinstitutionalism) seems to
be a widely accepted framework for actorcentered studies dealing with organizations, state …

In his January 2018 article, Cardinale seeks to advance new microfoundations for
institutional theory by reformulating two assumptions underlying the structure versus agency …

For almost two decades, scholars have stressed the need to make the microfoundations of
institutional theory more explicit (DiMaggio and Powell, 1991; Zucker, 1991). Curiously …