Despite the centrality of meaning to institutionalization, little attention has been paid to how
meanings evolve and amplify to become institutionalized cultural conventions. We develop …

When science adopts the logic of the market American universities today serve as economic
engines, performing the scientific research that will create new industries, drive economic …

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach,
this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative …

Research on the impact of CEO attributes on firm performance is sporadic and fragmented,
with various studies addressing select pieces of the puzzle. Through synthesizing and …

The study of institutional myths has been central to organizational sociology, cultural
sociology, and the sociology of education for 30 years. This article examines how the myth …

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 …

We show how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) ministers in two mainline
Protestant denominations in the United States experience and address a salient institutional …

Over the past two decades, organizational scholars have increasingly argued that
technology's affects on organizations are socially constructed. Constructivists who study …

I develop a model linking specific microinteraction dynamics between members of different
institutional fields and the genesis of new practices. The model centers on the concept of …

We theorize the role in institutional processes of what we call the “shame nexus,” a set of
shame-related constructs: felt shame, systemic shame, sense of shame, and episodic …