This paper shows that organizations in market settings face complex institutional contexts to
which they respond in different though patterned ways. We show how both regional state …

We propose that institutional logics are resources organizations use to leverage their
strategic choices. We argue that firms with an awareness of multiple available logics …

Changing environments often expose organizations to institutional logics that are at odds
with other logics that were imprinted into the organizations in the past, giving rise to conflict …

Despite the wealth of research on the origins of institutions, little is known about how
institutions and their underlying logics are extended following initial diffusion. We argue that …

We develop an institutionally oriented theory of how and why local communities continue to
matter for organizations in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both …

The authors examine how competing institutional logics shape institutional fields.
Specifically, they conceptualize control of the modern corporation as an evolving institutional …

An increasing number of studies in the last decade or so have emphasized the viability and
persistence of distinctive systems of economic coordination and control in developed market …

PAULA JARZABKOWSKI, JANE MATTHIESEN, AND ANDREW H. VAN DE VEN examining
institutional work; that is, how institutions are created, maintained, and disrupted through the …

We contribute to the literature on institutional and organizational change by integrating two
related areas of study: the theory and methods of analysis informed by the research on …

Institutional theory has explained the greater prevalence of many strategic actions by
increases in their legitimacy over time, but it has not explained how firms choose among …