Institutional theory has risen to prominence as a popular and powerful explanation for both
individual and organizational action. It is a vibrant theory that has been synthesized and …

So institutional theory and critical theory share a broad “family resemblance.” They differ,
however, in their respective trajectories within management studies. While both start as …

Fully revised and refined, this new edition of Institutional Theory and Organizational Change
considers the developments in the field of institutional organization theory over the past …

Purpose This essay raises a concern about the trajectory that new institutionalism has been
following during the last decades, namely an emphasis on heterogeneity, change and …

The growth of institutionalist research within organizational studies has been nothing short
of remarkable. The institutional perspective has come to dominate submissions to the …

Institutional theories offer more insight into the processes that explain institutional stability
than those that explain institutional change. This article starts by elaborating this general …

Institutions are social structures that are characterized by a high degree of resilience (Scott,
2001). They have a self-activating nature (Lawrence, Hardy 86 Phillips, 2002; Jepperson …

This essay offers a critical summation of the use of neo-institutionalism to study
organizations. While institutionalism has succeeded in becoming the dominant theory to …

The study of institutional change is a core research area in organization theory and is of
increasing relevance for scholarship in other disciplines. In this article, we review the …

This chapter proposes a process model for understanding institutional change at the
organizational field level of analysis. This process model consists of five overlapping stages …