What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and
bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the …

What explains the dramatic technical and social changes observed in much of the world
during the past century? Responses to this kind of question vary, depending on the degree …

As key socio-cultural building blocks of human societies, institutions are distinct from
organizations and, hence, are central to sociological inquiry. In recent decades, however …

The purpose of this paper is to present a way to make sense of the various strands of
organizational theory. Organizational theories have three origins: Max Weber's original work …

The debate around Michels's “iron law of oligarchy” over the question of whether
organizations inevitably become oligarchic reaches back almost a century, but the concept …

In chapter 6 (a) Professor Weick has argued that enactment is a “roomy framework” that
reminds people of a central fact of organizational life:“people often produce part of the …

CHARLENE ZIETSMA AND BRENT MCKNIGHT unique contribution of institutional theory is
the insight that organizations need legitimacy as well as technical efficiency to survive and …

Organizational fields undergo upheavals. Shifting industry boundaries, new network forms,
emerging sectors, and volatile ecosystems have become the stuff of everyday organizational …

A longstanding question in organization research is what makes organizations more or less
similar to each other. Early organization theorists pointed out that organizations that share …

The focus on institutions as a foundational concept in the social sciences has given rise to a
variety of new institutionalist approaches. Not since the behavioral revolution of the 1950s …