This review discusses North American and European research from the sociology of
valuation and evaluation (SVE), a research topic that has attracted considerable attention in …

Much modern social theory depicts society as made up of autonomous and purposive
individual and organized actors. In reaction, the new institutional theories build arguments …

Neoliberal economic theories are powerful because their domestic translators make them go
local, hybridizing global scripts with local ideas. This does not mean that all local …

Archival research methods include a broad range of activities applied to facilitate the
investigation of documents and textual materials produced by and about organizations. In its …

How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and
organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines …

The promise of a closer union between organizational and historical research has long been
recognized. However, its potential remains unfulfilled: the authenticity of theory development …

This book is the product of research and reflection over more than three de cades. Sources
in our earlier work are cited at appropriate places in the text. Our progress has also been …

The liberalization and expansion of finance was essential to the making of global capitalism,
yet it came with a degree of volatility that threatened economic stability. The unresolved …

In this book, leading authorities on project organizing explore the growing deployment of
projects and other types of temporary organizations, with a focus on the challenges created …

The study of institutional logics has become, in the more than twenty years since Friedland
and Alford's (1991) seminal article, one of the key theoretical perspectives in organizational …