Although values were once the central focus of institutional scholarship, they occupy a
marginal position in the contemporary literature. Viewing this situation as both a significant …

Most research on trust in interorganizational relationships focuses on a single level of
analysis, typically the individual or organizational level, and treats trust as a fairly static …

We develop a model of rhetorical legitimation that specifies the communicative and cognitive
structure underlying the maintenance and change of institutions. To do so we draw on and …

The current study purposes to assess the impact of institutional pressures (coercive, mimetic,
and normative) on environmental performance of the firm along with the mediation of …

Data use, or drawing on and interacting with information in the course of decision making,
has emerged as a key strategy intended to foster improvement in public schools and …

This article synthesizes the extensive literature on the diffusion and adoption of public sector
innovations. Although various subfields within public administration have studied diffusion …

Organizational scholars have long used vocabularies, and with the rise of research on
language, this work has grown. Yet the research drawing on vocabularies is wide ranging …

This paper questions a key assumption in the organizations literature that the dynamism of
institutional logics and practice variations is the result of rivalry among logics and actors, of …

In this article, we provide in-depth insight into the process of adopting service design (SD) by
a large service organization. We use an inductive interpretive approach and draw on rich …

Despite the growing volume of research on data use systems or data use activities in which
teachers engage, micro-process studies—investigations of what teachers and others …