The notions of leadership and organizational change have been closely linked and
frequently discussed in tandem. Whereas we know much about leadership and change, we …

Translation theories argue that the transformation of new ideas is 'in the hands of people'and
that actors at multiple organizational levels interact to affect this process. However, previous …

Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular
strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas …

The concept of an institutional field is one of the cornerstones of institutional theory, and yet
the concept has been stretched both theoretically and empirically, making consolidation of …

The orientation towards grand societal challenges can be seen as a new wave or paradigm
for innovation policy. Such policy aims at system-wide transformation and is often referred to …

We examine the 'identity work'of manager–professional 'hybrids', specifically medical
professionals in managerial roles in the British National Health Service, to maintain and …

We develop a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as terms of
the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the …

The relationship between power and institutions is an intimate one. Institutions exist to the
extent that they are powerful–the extent to which they affect the behaviors, beliefs and …

Across the social sciences, scholars are increasingly showing how people'work'to construct
organizational life, including the rules and routines that shape and enable organizational …

The creation of new roles commonly threatens the power and status of elite professionals
through the substitution of their labour. In this paper we examine the institutional work …