The pervasive spread of rationalizing trends in society, such as the growing influence of
managerial sciences and increasing emphases on accountability and transparency, has …

Organizations face institutional complexity whenever they confront incompatible
prescriptions from multiple institutional logics. Our interest is in how plural institutional logics …

Theory and research concerning organizational identity (“who we are as an organization”) is
a burgeoning domain within organization study. A great deal of conceptual and empirical …

abstract This article introduces the Special Issue and discusses the microfoundations of
routines and capabilities, including why a microfoundations view is needed and how it may …

This article develops a model of practice-driven institutional change—or change that
originates in the everyday work of individuals but results in a shift in field-level logic. In …

Our study explores the work undertaken by entrepreneurial ventures when engaging with
external enabling technologies. Specifically, we examine a unique sample of early-stage …

I develop a theoretical framework that specifies the content underlying legitimacy judgments
and a model of the process by which these judgments develop and change. I argue that …

The advancement and growth of institutional theory over the past seven decades has
brought with it an increasing plurality in its theoretical and empirical approaches, along with …

Corporate social responsibility has received an increasing amount of attention from
practitioners and scholars alike in recent years. However, very little is known about whether …

We theorize about how the entrepreneurial identity, which we define as the constellation of
claims around the founder, new venture, and market opportunity as to “who we are” and …