Scholars have long been interested in when and to what degree managers are able to exert
control over their organizations. In this review, we examine managerial discretion, or the …

Research on the political consequences of social movements has recently accelerated. We
take stock of this research with a focus on movements in democratic polities and the United …

A growing number of companies choose to pursue financial and social goals
simultaneously. These dual-purpose companies face inherent trade-offs as they are caught …

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 …

This article develops an empirically grounded process model of how managers in
organizations respond to coexisting paradoxical tensions. With a longitudinal real-time …

In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in
turn shapes what is possible in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little …

I offer an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility consisting of a series of
propositions specifying the conditions under which corporations are likely to behave in …

Although many recent studies have emphasized the multiplicity of institutional logics and the
competition among them, how some institutional logics become prioritized over others in …

THIS BOOK IS about some of the most important problems confronting social scientists who
study institutions and institutional change. It is also about globalization, particularly the …

Hence, social control, so far from tending to crush out the human individual or to obliterate
his selfconscious individuality, is, on the contrary, actually constitutive of and inextricably …