This article explores how hybrid organizations, which incorporate competing institutional
logics, internally manage the logics that they embody. Relying on an inductive comparative …

Most writings on corporate social responsibility (CSR) treat lack of consistency between
organizational CSR talk and action as a serious problem that needs to be eliminated. In this …

This paper encourages scholars of management to pay attention to the mutually constitutive
nature of accounting, organizing, and economizing. This means viewing accounting as …

In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a
range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher …

We theorize that social media will reduce the incidence of corporate greenwash. Drawing on
the management literature on decoupling and the economic literature on information …

We propose a behavioral theory of corporate governance based on an ontological
foundation of socially situated and socially constituted agency. More specifically, we …

The paper theorises how a new actor of a firm can drive the institutionalisation of a new role
for management accountants. Drawing on institutional theory and using insights from a …

We offer an institutional explanation for the contemporary expansion of formal organization—
in numbers, internal complexity, social domains, and national contexts. Much expansion lies …

This paper examines the relationship between the institutional environment and sustained
corporate illegality. We find that cognitive assumptions generate expectations that can …

National human rights institutions, defined as domestic but globally legitimated agencies
charged with promoting and protecting human rights, have emerged worldwide. This article …