This paper makes the case for an inhabited institutionalism by pondering questions that
continue to vex institutional theory: How can we account for local activity, agency, and …

Institutions are social structures that are characterized by a high degree of resilience (Scott,
2001). They have a self-activating nature (Lawrence, Hardy 86 Phillips, 2002; Jepperson …

'Institutional work'has evolved from a concept introduced to capture a set of actions
described in institutional research, to a perspective on the relationship between institutions …

The growing popularity of institutional work suggests a broad agentic turn in institutional
approaches to organizational studies. We briefly describe the contribution of the evolving …

HE concept of institutional work describes" the purposive action of individuals and
organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions"(Lawrence & …

The'institutional'approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of
social life-such as marriage and bureaucracy-act as mechanisms of social control. Such …

This essay offers a critical summation of the use of neo-institutionalism to study
organizations. While institutionalism has succeeded in becoming the dominant theory to …

In the first edition of this handbook, Powell and Colyvas (2008) argued that much could be
gained by making the microfoundations of institutional theory more explicit. That chapter …

We argue that this paradox is, at least in part, the result of a long-standing tension in
sociology between more materialist, interestdriven explanations of behavior and ideational …

The new institutionalism in sociology and organizational research is best represented as an
extended family of scholars that share a broadly defined theoretical orientation. The multiple …