The study of institutional work has emerged as a dynamic research domain within
organization studies. In this essay, we situate the papers published in the Special Issue. We …

The study of culture is on the rise; still, this popularity comes with the cost of increasing
fragmentation, as definitions and conceptualizations proliferate. The objectives of this review …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the rationale for choosing the qualitative
approach to research human resources practices, namely, recruitment and selection …

Research Summary We used interviews with elite informants as a case study to illustrate the
need to expand the discussion of transparency and replicability to qualitative methodology …

With societal inequalities continuing to increase and organizations providing the vast
majority of people with their income, we wanted to assess the ways in which organizational …

Long-established family firms are endowed with a bundle of beliefs and practices that
constitute their tradition. However, to remain competitive, they need to renew their products …

Abstract Family-controlled firms (FCFs)'prevalence, strategies, and performance differ across
countries. We explain these differences through the lens of informal institutions, suggesting …

For all its richness and potential for discovery, qualitative research has been critiqued as too
often lacking in scholarly rigor. The authors summarize a systematic approach to new …

Abstract Research Summary The capacity to manage history is an important but
undertheorized component of dynamic capabilities. We argue that the capacity to manage …

'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 …