Institutional Theory in Organization Studies

Institutional theory is a wide ranging body of work that has had, and continuous to have, a huge impact in political science, sociology and organization studies. However, there remains a gap for a collection that addresses organizational institutionalism - by far the most used perspective within organization and management theory.

VOLUME ONE PART ONE: BEGINNINGS Institutionalized Organizations - John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony The Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence - Lynne G. Zucker The Iron Cage Revisited - Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields The Organization of Societal Sectors - W. R. Scott and J. W. Meyer PART TWO: ELABORATIONS The Adolescence of Institutional Theory - Richard W. Scott Institutional Theories of Organization - Lynne G. Zucker Introduction - Walter W. Powell and Paul DiMaggio Markets as Politics - Neil Fligstein A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions Crafting an Analytic Framework I - W. Richard Scott Three Pillars of Institutions Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes - Christine Oliver Culture in Action - Ann Swidler VOLUME TWO PART ONE: LEGITIMACY Managing Legitimacy - Mark C. Suchman Strategic and Institutional Approaches Marlene, Fools Rush in? The Institutional Context of Industry Creation - Howard E. Aldrich and C. Fiol Institutional Linkages and Organizational Mortality - Joel A.C. Baum and Christine Oliver Cultural Entrepreneurship - Michael Lounsbury and Mary Ann Glynn Stories, Legitimacy and the Acquisition of Resources PART TWO: ISOMORPHISM AND DIFFUSION Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations - Pamela S. Tolbert and Lynne G. Zucker The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935 Agents without Principles? The Spread of the Poison Pill through the Intercorporate Network - Gerald F. Davi Modes of Interorganizational Imitation - Pamela R. Haunschild and Anne S. Miner The Effects of Outcome Salience and Uncertainty Customization or Conformity? An Institutional and Network Perspective on the Contents and Consequences of TQM Adoption - James D. Westphal, Ranjay Gulati and Stephen M. Shortell Learning by Association? Interorganizational Networks and Adaptation to Environmental Change - Matthew S. Kraatz Global Competition, Institutions and the Diffusion of Organizational Practices - Isin Guler, Mauro F. Guillén and John Muir Macpherson The International Spread of ISO 9000 Quality Certificates Equal-Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets - Frank Dobbin et al Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures - Lauren B. Edelman Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law Travels of Ideas - Barbara Czarniawska and M. Warner Jorges Institutional Conditions for Diffusion - David Strang and John W. Meyer Diffusion in Organizations and Social Movements - David Strang and Sarah A. Soule From Hybrid Corn to Poison Pills VOLUME THREE PART ONE: LOGICS AND LANGUAGE Bringing Society back in - Roger Friedland and Robert R. Alford Symbols, Practices and Institutional Contradictions Institutional Logics and the Historical Contingency of Power in Organizations - Patricia H. Thornton and William Ocasio Executive Succession in the Higher Education Publishing Industry, 1958?1990 Discourse and Institutions - Nelson Phillips, Thomas B. Lawrence and Cynthia Hardy Theorizing Change - Royston Greenwood, Roy Suddaby and C.R. Hinings The Role of Professional Associations in the Transformation of Institutionalized Fields Rhetorical Strategies of Legitimacy - Roy Suddaby and Royston Greenwood PART TWO: INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CHANGE Interest and Agency in Institutional Theory - Paul J. DiMaggio Institutionalization and Structuration - Stephen R. Barley and Pamela S. Tolbert Studying the Links between Action and Institution Politics and Institutionalism - Elisabeth S. Clemens and James M. Cook Explaining Durability and Change Institutional Contradictions, Praxis and Institutional Change - Myeong-Gu Seo and W.E. Douglas Creed A Dialectical Perspective Institutional Evolution and Change - Andrew Hoffman Environmentalism and the U.S. Chemical Industry Institutional Change and the Transformation of Interorganizational Fields - Huseyin Leblebici An Organizational History of the U.S. Radio Broadcasting Industry Constructing an Organizational Field as a Professional Project - Paul J. DiMaggio Institutional Change in Toque Ville - Hayagreeva Rao, Philippe Monin and Rodolphe Durand Nouvelle Cuisine as an Identity Movement in French Gastronomy Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Fields - Steve Maguire, Cynthia Hardy and Thomas B. Lawrence HIV/AIDS Treatment Advocacy in Canada Understanding Radical Organizational Change - Royston Greenwood and C.R. Hinings Bringing Together the Old and the New Institutionalism Institutional Transitions and Strategic Choices - Mike W. Peng Industry Self-Regulation without Sanctions - Andrew A. King and Michael J. Lennox The Chemical Industry¿s Responsible Care Program Institutional Entrepreneurship in Mature Fields - Royston Greenwood and Roy Suddaby The Big Five Accounting Firms VOLUME FOUR PART ONE: REFLECTIONS Reflections on Institutional Theories of Organizations - John W. Meyer On the Virtues of the Old Institutionalism - Arthur L. Stinchcombe An Overview and a Caution - W. Richard Scott PART TWO: NEW DIRECTIONS? Institutions and Institutional Work - Thomas B. Lawrence and Roy Suddaby Micro-Foundations of Institutional Theory - Walter W. Powell and Jeanette A. Colyvas New Practice Creation - Michael Lounsbury and Ellen T. Crumley An Institutional Perspective on Innovation Institutional Logics - Patricia H. Thornton and William Ocasio The Categorical Imperative - Ezra W. Zuckerman Securities Analysts and the Illegitimacy Discount Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations - Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado The Case of Commercial Micro-Finance Organizations When Worlds Collide - Anne-Claire Pache and Filipe Santos The Internal Dynamics of Organizational Responses to Conflicting Institutional Demands Community Isomorphism and Corporate Social Action - Christopher Marquis, Mary Ann Glynn and Gerald F. Davis