We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional
logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence …

Drawing on a 15-month ethnographic study of a drug court, we investigate how actors from
different institutional and professional backgrounds employ logical frameworks in their micro …

abstract Beginning with this article, our special issue advances the understanding of the role
of professions in processes of institutional change and through this it proposes a …

In order to advance the micro-foundations of institutional theory, we explore how individuals
within organizations experience and respond to competing institutional logics. Starting with …

This Element provides an overview of cultural entrepreneurship scholarship and seeks to lay
the foundation for a broader and more integrative research agenda at the interface of …

We theorize how new market categories emerge and are legitimated through a confluence
of factors internal to the category (entrepreneurial ventures) and external to the category …

Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship
between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness …

In this article I argue that the quest to establish microfoundations for institutional theory is
hindered by two assumptions on which it currently rests: that structure simply constrains and …

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 …

To survive and prosper, organizations must reconcile stability, reliability, and exploitation
with change, innovation, and exploration. These imperatives and the mechanisms that …