In common discourse, economic activities run by profit‐oriented managers and
entrepreneurs are considered to be at the root of social and ecological crisis and hence …

We develop an institutionally oriented theory of how and why local communities continue to
matter for organizations in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both …

Abstract The Circular Economy (CE) has been identified as a sustainable alternative to the
current linear economic model. Thus far, research on the circular economy has focused on …

As well as review the literature on the notion of institutional entrepreneurship introduced by
Paul DiMaggio in 1988, we propose a model of the process of institutional entrepreneurship …

The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in
new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms …

Organizations have to cope with the complexity of their environment in order to survive. A
considerable body of research has shown that organizations may respond to environmental …

I summarize seven general trends in the institutional analysis of organizations which I view
as constructive and provide evidence of progress in the development of this perspective. I …

Institutions are social structures that are characterized by a high degree of resilience (Scott,
2001). They have a self-activating nature (Lawrence, Hardy 86 Phillips, 2002; Jepperson …

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 …

Although early neo-institutional studies did not explicitly tackle the issue of agency, more
recent studies about institutional entrepreneurship have brought it to the forefront …