One of the current dominant theories in the management literature is institutional theory.
Scholars within the institutional theory tradition have examined the creation and evolution of …

Institutional theory has generated considerable insight into fundamental issues within sport.
This study seeks to advance Washington and Patterson's review by providing an empirical …

We trace the development of neo-institutional theory in Organization Studies from a marginal
topic to the dominant theory. We show how it has evolved from infancy, through adolescence …

The concept of an institutional field is one of the cornerstones of institutional theory, and yet
the concept has been stretched both theoretically and empirically, making consolidation of …

Organizations face institutional complexity whenever they confront incompatible
prescriptions from multiple institutional logics. Our interest is in how plural institutional logics …

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 …

This article examines practice diffusion in an environment where competing logics exist,
specifically investigating how trustee and performance logics that were rooted in different …

In this paper, I highlight how popular understandings of neoinstitutionalism as a theory of
isomorphism need to be revised as institutionalists have shifted attention towards the study …

This paper offers a review of institutional work and its utilization in sport management. We
detailed how institutional work offers a modern paradigm of institutional theory that …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework surrounding the typology of
environmental sustainability efforts made within the sport industry. We draw from multiple …