Many actors claim to be experts of specialized knowledge, but for this expertise to be
perceived as legitimate, other actors in the field must recognize them as authorities. Using …

Advocacy movements play an increasingly prominent role in shaping corporate social
responsibility (CSR) management and reporting practices. Prior research mainly studies …

This paper examines the role of experimental spaces as a source of institutional innovation.
We investigate the case of an experimental space that was instrumental in initiating the …

The concepts of strategy (what we do or plan to do) and organizational identity (who we
think we are) are deeply intertwined. Yet there is surprisingly little research that directly …

Over the past decade, institutional researchers have relied extensively on the premise that
institutional contradictions are key drivers of institutional instability and institutional change …

Open forms of organising innovation bear great potential to address societal challenges,
such as the climate crisis. Existing approaches to open social innovation (OSI) draw on a …

Worldwide, smart city projects have emerged as a response to urban crisis conditions with
the aim of leveraging digital technologies for urban innovation and sustainable …

In much contemporary institutional scholarship, the term 'actor'is used as a shorthand for any
entity imbued with agency. Talking about actors in institutions thus serves the necessity of …

I explore the interrelations between methodology and theory by examining how specific
research strategies afford specific lines of theorizing. My case study is recent studies in …

Our research contributes to knowledge on strategic organizational responses by addressing
a specific type of institutional complexity that has, to date, been rather neglected in scholarly …