Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while
Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number …

Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship
between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness …

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach,
this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative …

A quest to explain institutional change that gave rise to a new economic order is complex
and challenging. This book reports the results of a six-year (2005–2011) study that aims to …

We study the emergence of organizational forms, focusing on two mechanisms—
reconfiguration and transposition—that distinguish the founding models of the first 26 …

Explaining the growth and change of regions and cities is one of the great challenges for
social science. The field of economic geography and associated economics has developed …

We draw on institutional theory to study a common type of new venture creation that has
been neglected in the literature: the translation of an existing organizational form from a …

To investigate how participants shape a field's social and symbolic boundaries over time, I
conducted an in-depth longitudinal study of five core and peripheral communities in the …

Departing from prior research analyzing the implications of social structure for actors'
outcomes by applying either an ego network or a global network perspective, this study …

The term “actor” is a central yet contested construct in institutional theory. Regardless of
one's position, institutional theory requires a scaffolding that acknowledges the novelty and …