How can be explained the dramatic changes in the growth of informal dispute resolution as"
alternatives" to adjudication between 1970-2000? This article gives an answer to this …

Sexual harassment is one of the most significant problems facing American higher
education today, and Title IX requires schools to address it. Yet Title IX was not created to …

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and a leading cause of death
for women worldwide. With advances in molecular engineering in the 1980s, hopes began …

The concept of a platform describes a set of system components that is strongly
interdependent with most other system components, and that also co-determines the …

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

What can studying the creation of knowledge tell us about how new technical fields emerge
and develop? This paper shows how a knowledge community may be necessary to support …

We inductively examine how exceptional Principal Investigators (PIs), who are active in
biotechnology, medical devices, and nanotechnology, affect new technology trajectories and …

This article investigates how employees respond to hybrid organizing, that is, organizational
settings that are characterized by multiple institutional logics. We examine individuals' …

Corporations are typically identified as the primary organization for producing and
redistributing resources. They continue to be important but are not alone. Since the early …

Social capital is widely recognized as an important aspect of regional economies, and social
networks in particular have recently been the focus of research in economic sociology and …