The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism

841 Pages·2008·4.14 MB·English

by  Royston Greenwood

The SAGE

Handbook of

Organizational

Institutionalism

The SAGE

Handbook of

Organizational

Institutionalism

Edited by
Royston Greenwood

Christine Oliver

Roy Suddaby

and Kerstin Sahlin

SAGE

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Contents

Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Kerstin Sahlin and Roy Suddaby

SECTION I FOUNDATIONAL THEMES 47
1 Legitimacy in Organizational Institutionalism 49

David L. Deephouse and Mark Suchman
2 Isomorphism, Diffusion and Decoupling 78
Eva Boxenbaum and Stefan Jonsson

3 Institutional Logics 99

Patricia H. Thornton and William Ocasio
4 Organizational Fields: Past, Present and Future 130

Melissa Wooten and Andrew J. Hoffman

SECTION II INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS 149

5 The Work of Meanings in Institutional Processes and Thinking 151
Tammar B. Zilber

6 Power, Institutions and Organizations 170
Thomas B. Lawrence

7 Institutional Entrepreneurship 198

Cynthia Hardy and Steve Maguire
8 Circulating Ideas: Imitation, Translation and Editing 218
Kerstin Sahlin and Linda Wedlin

9 Organizational Implications of Institutional Pluralism 243
Matthew S. Kraatz and Emily S. Block
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10 Microfoundations of Institutional Theory 276

Walter W. Powell and Jeannette A. Colyvas

11 Institutions and Transnationalization 299
Marie-Laure Djelic and Sigrid Quack

SECTION III APPLICATIONS 325

12 Traditions as Institutionalized Practice: Implications
for Deinstitutionalization 327
M. Tina Dacin and Peter A. Dacin
13 New Forms as Settlements 352
Hayagreeva Rao and Martin Kenney

14 Social Movements and Failed Institutionalization:
Corporate (Non) Response to the AIDS Epidemic 371
Gerald F. Davis and Peter J.J. Anderson
15 Institutions and Corporate Governance 389

Peer C. Fiss

SECTION IV INTERFACES 411

16 Beyond Constraint: How Institutions Enable Identities 413
Mary Ann Glynn
17 Institutionalism and the Professions 431
Kevin T. Leicht and Mary L. Fennell

18 Institutionalism and Globalization Studies 449

Gili S. Drori

19 Organizational Institutionalism and Sociology: A Reflection 473
C.R. Hinings and Pamela S. Tolbert

20 Coalface Institutionalism 491

Stephen R. Barley

21 New Sociology of Knowledge: Historical Legacy and Contributions
to Current Debates in Institutional Research 519
Renate E. Meyer
22 Systems Theory, Societal Contexts, and Organizational Heterogeneity 539

Raimund Hasse and Georg Krücken

23 Charting Progress at the Nexus of Institutional Theory and Economics 560

Peter W. Roberts
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24 Ecologists and Institutionalists: Friends or Foes? 573

Heather A. Haveman and Robert J. David

25 Networks and Institutions 596
Jason Owen-Smith and Walter W. Powell

26 Institutional-Level Learning: Learning as a Source of Institutional Change 624

Pamela Haunschild and David Chandler

27 Social Movements and Institutional Analysis 650
Marc Schneiberg and Michael Lounsbury
28 Examining ‘Institutionalization’: A Critical Theoretic Perspective 673
David J. Cooper, Mahmoud Ezzamel and Hugh Willmott

29 Taking Social Construction Seriously: Extending the Discursive
Approach in Institutional Theory 702
Nelson Phillips and Namrata Malhotra
30 Institutional Leadership: Past, Present and Future 721

Marvin Washington, Kimberly B. Boal and John N. Davis

SECTION V REFLECTIONS 737

31 Is the New Institutionalism a Theory? 739
Donald Palmer, Nicole Biggart and Brian Dick
32 How to Misuse Institutions and Get Away with It: Some Reflections
on Institutional Theory(ies) 769

Barbara Czarniawska

33 Been There, Done That, Moving On: Reflections on Institutional

Theory’s Continuing Evolution 783
Paul Hirsch

34 Reflections on Institutional Theories of Organizations 790
John W. Meyer

Index 813
Notes on Contributors

Peter Anderson is a former doctoral student in management and organization at the Ross

School of Business at the University of Michigan. His research is focused on the relationship
between shared leadership and members’perceptions of their value to an organization. He is
currently pursuing his Masters in Education to teach social studies at the secondary level.

Stephen R. Barley is Charles M. Pigott Professor of Management Science and Engineering,
Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford’s School of
Engineering and Co-Director of the Stanford/General Motors Collaborative Research

Laboratory. He has previously edited the Administrative Science Quarterly, and was founding

editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He edited Between Craft and Science:
Technical Work in the United States (Cornell University Press, 1997), and recently published
(with Gideon Kunda) the book Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in the
Knowledge Economy(Princeton University Press).

Nicole Woolsey Biggartis Professor of Management and Sociology, and holds the Jerome J.
and Elsie Suran Chair in Technology Management at the University of California, Davis. She

is currently serving as Dean of the Graduate School of Management. Nicole is interested in the
institutional structure of economic relations and has studied the direct selling industry, family
firms and business groups in Asia, and microcredit lending. While her empirical interests have
been varied she has largely approached analysis from a Weberian institutional perspective and
grounds her work historically. She has also written extensively on institutional theory.
Emily Block is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Her

research focuses on how organizations actively shape institutions and promote field-level
change. Her doctoral dissertation explores the process through which industry associations

and non-governmental organizations facilitate and direct the emergence of self-regulatory

governance institutions related to sustainable forestry practices.
Kimberly B. Boal is Rawls Professor of Management at the Rawls College of Business,

Texas Tech University. He was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management Inquiry
(1997–2006). He served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management from 2001

to 2004, and as President of the Western Academy of Management in 1998–2000. He was twice

awarded the Joan G. Dahl Presidential Award by the Western Academy of Management. His
research on worker attitudes and motivation, leadership, organizational change, strategic plan-
ning, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate social responsibility has been published in
Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science
Quarterly, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, and Strategic Management Journal,
and books.

Eva Boxenbaum is Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen
Business School, where she is also a member of the Centre for Management Studies of the

Building Process. The focus of her research is on the institutionalization of innovative management
practices, in particular, how management practices are translated, implemented, and sometimes
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix

decoupled when they are brought into new national contexts. Her regional areas of expertise

are Canada, Denmark, France, Quebec and the United States. Most of her empirical work is
comparative in scope and spans multiple levels of analysis, the aim being to shed light on

processes of institutionalization. She has published in Strategic Organization, Journal of
Business Strategies, American Behavioral Scientistand in several international anthologies.

David Chandler is a Ph.D candidate in organization theory and strategy at the University

of Texas at Austin. His broad area of research interest lies at the intersection between the
organization and its institutional environment. Specifically, he is interested in change processes
of organizational adoption, learning, and imitation. He is also interested in the strategic impli-
cations of corporate social responsibility and firm/stakeholder relations. His publications in this
area include the textbook Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility(Sage, December 2005).
Jeannette A. Colyvas is an assistant professor in learning and organizational change at

Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy. Her research interests

include organizations and entrepreneurship, comparing public, private, and non-profit forms
of organizing, and institutional change. Colyvas' work examines the relationship between insti-
tutions and resources, practices and their meanings, and how social and technical categories
develop and become institutionalized. Her current research examines university–industry
interfaces, focusing on the translation of basic science into commercial application and its

ramifications for careers, identities, and public science.

David J. Cooperis the CGA Chair in Accounting at the University of Alberta and Director of
the Ph.D program for the School of Business. He has written or edited seven books and over
70 articles (in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Administrative Science
Quarterly, and Organization Studies). He is a joint editor of Critical Perspectives on
Accounting, and serves on the editorial boards of seven other journals. His current research
examines the development and implementation of strategic performance measurement
systems in multinational organizations, as well as the emerging systems of global regulation

of professional accountants.

Barbara Czarniawska holds a Chair in Management Studies at GRI, School of Business,

Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Sweden. Her recent publications in English are
A Tale of Three Cities (2002), Narratives in Social Science Research (2004) and A Theory
of Organizing(2008). She edited Global Ideas(with Guje Sevón, 2005), ANT and Organizing

(with Tor Hernes, 2005), Organization Theory (2006) and Management Education
& Humanities(with Pasquale Gagliardi, 2006).

Peter A. Dacin is Kraft Professor of Marketing at the Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s
University, Canada. His research areas include corporate reputation and identity, consumer judg-
ment formation, and sociological approaches to understanding communication and consumption.
He is currently working on several projects focused on understanding communication and coordi-
nation effects between marketing organizations and various types of consumption communities.
His work has been published in a variety of academic journals, including the Journal

of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of the

Academy of Marketing Science, and the Journal of Business Research.

M. Tina Dacin is the E. Marie Shantz Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behavior in
the Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada. Her research interests include