Table of Contents

Introduction - Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence and Renate E. Meyer
SECTION 1: BEGINNINGS (FOUNDATIONS)
Chapter 1: Organizational Legitimacy: Six Key Questions - David L. Deephouse, Jonathan Bundy, Leigh Plunkett Tost & Mark C. Suchman
Chapter 2: Organizational Fields: Past, Present and Future - Melissa Wooten and Andrew J. Hoffman
SECTION 2: ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR CONTEXTS
Chapter 3: Isomorphism, Diffusion and Decoupling - Eva Boxenbaum and Stefan Jonsson
Chapter 4: The imitation and translation of management ideas - Linda Wedlin and Kerstin Sahlin
Chapter 5: On Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research - Julie Battilana, Marya Besharov and Bjoern Mitzinneck
Chapter 6: Fields, Institutional Infrastructure and Governance - C.R. (Bob) Hinings, Danielle Logue and Charlene Zietsma
Chapter 7: Drivers of Community Strength: An Institutional Logics Perspective on Geographical and Affiliation Based Communities - Juan Almandoz, Chris Marquis and Michael Cheely
Chapter 8: The Consequences of Globalization for Institutions and Organizations - Markus A. Höllerer, Peter Walgenbach and Gili S. Drori
Chapter 9: Theorizing the Identity- Institution Relationship: Considering identity as antecedent to, consequence of, and Mechanism for, processes of institutional change - Mary Ann Glynn
SECTION 3: INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES
Chapter 10: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Change in Fields - Cynthia Hardy and Steve Maguire
Chapter 11: Social Movements and the Dynamics of Institutions and Organizations - Marc Schneiberg and Michael Lounsbury
Chapter 12: Opening the Black Box: The Microfoundations of Institutions - Walter W. Powell and Claus Rerup
Chapter 13: Coalface Institutionalism - Stephen R. Barley
Chapter 14: Towards a Practice-Driven Institutionalism - Michael Smets, Angela Aristidou and Richard Whittington
Chapter 15: Language, Cognition and Institutions: Studying Institutionalization Using Linguistic Methods - Nelson Phillips and Namrata Malhotra
Chapter 16: The Evolving Role of Meaning in Theorizing Institutions - Tammar B. Zilber
Chapter 17: Networks and Institutions - Walter W. Powell and Achim Oberg
Chapter 18: Power, Institutions, and Organizations - Thomas B. Lawrence and Sean Buchanan
SECTION 4: CONVERSATIONS
Chapter 19: The Institutional Logics Perspective - William Ocasio, Patricia H. Thornton and Michael Lounsbury
Chapter 20: Institutional Pluralism Revisited - Matthew S. Kraatz and Emily S. Block
Chapter 21: Institutional Work: Taking Stock and Making It Matter - Christian E. Hampel, Thomas B. Lawrence and Paul Tracey
Chapter 22: Living institutions: Bringing emotions into organizational institutionalism - Jaco Lok, W.E. Douglas Creed, Rich DeJordy and Maxim Voronov
Chapter 23: The Material and Visual Basis of institutions - Candace Jones, Renate E. Meyer, Dennis Jancsary and Markus A. Höllerer
Chapter 24: Advancing Category Research: Theoretical Mapping and Under-researched Areas - Rodolphe Durand and Romain Boulongne
SECTION 5: CONSEQUENCES
Chapter 25: Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship: Taking Stock and Moving Forward - Robert J. David, Wesley D. Sine and Caroline Kaehr Serra
Chapter 26: Organizations, institutions, and inequality - Gerald F. Davis
Chapter 27: Institutions and Economic Inequality - John Amis, Kamal Munir and Johanna Mair
Chapter 28: Institutions, Institutional Theory, and Organizational Wrongdoing - Donald Palmer
Chapter 29: Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Building Research through Tensions and Paradoxes - P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew J. Hoffman
Chapter 30: Race and Institutionalism - Fabio Rojas
Chapter 31: Are Diversity Programs Merely Ceremonial? Evidence-Free Institutionalization - Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev
SECTION 6: REFLECTIONS
Chapter 32: Reflections on Institutional Theories of Organizations - John W. Meyer
Chapter 33: Institutional Theory: Onward and Upward - W. Richard Scott

About the Author

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Reviews

The first edition of the Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism in 2008 signaled a reenergizing of institutional scholarship, integrating notions of multiplicity, power, agency, and practices into institutional thought. The 2017 edition builds on these developments, but also shows that the creative energy of the field continues unabated. Among important and exciting new themes addressed from an institutional perspective in this completely revised edition are emotions, materiality and visuality, categories, inequality, sustainability and race. As organizational institutionalism continues to expand its reach and relevance, this volume is clearly a must have for any serious student of organization theory.
*Ann Langley*

Some argue that institutionalism has become the default theory in management and organisation studies. Such a status requires continuing refinement and challenge. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines , academic areas and nations the writing in this second edition of the Sage Handbook will outreach the success of its predecessor volume. The editors and authors deserve their success and the reader will take stimulation from this book for many years to come.
*Andrew Pettigrew OBE, FBA*

The pluralism of organization theories is increasing contained within the very broad category of institutional theory. There could be no better invitation to explore the richness and complexity of this now predominant approach than one finds in The Sage Handbook of Organizational Intuitionalism. The editors have assembled a stellar composition of chapters by the leading contributors. It will be appreciated wherever Doctoral candidates in the field gather.
*Stewart Clegg*

There are several handbooks in management that are as comprehensive as this one, but absolutely none that I know of that approach the quality, rigour and insight of its scholarship. The authors and editors have my heartiest congratulations
*Danny Miller*

As the very impressive second edition of this Handbook makes evident, unlike its early emphases on stability and similarity, institutional theory keeps changing and taking on new areas of investigation, even acknowledging that other theoretical perspectives can inform it.  The chapters in this volume consider previously unimaginable questions such as what might happen if the institutional environment isn’t homogenous, and how institutional theory might learn from practice theory.  This book is of great value both for institutional scholars and for other scholars who felt they have been cut off entirely from institutional approaches.
*Jean M. Bartunek*

This new edition updates a classic reference for all things institutionalist. Alongside theory essays and reflections from many of the field’s founders, it also includes fresh and fascinating chapters on how institutional forces shape inequality, organizational wrongdoing, and many other societal outcomes of consequence today. A valuable addition to your organizational-theory bookshelf!
*Forrest Briscoe*

The first Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism - the ′green book′ - has been an essential reference even for those of us whose main research interests were not (yet) in institutional theory. So many of its chapters have become landmarks in their lines of inquiry, or opened entirely new ones. The new edition is all of this again, and even more. A must read for scholars interested in institutional processes and those who are not (yet).
*Davide Ravasi*

Almost immediately after the first edition of the Handbook came out, it was colloquially dubbed the Green Bible of Institutionalism by many of its readers. Big news: the New Testament just came out. It is awesome! The first edition of the Handbook was an instant classic, a feat that is hard to top. But the editors and contributors to the second edition have done it again. This is without a doubt the book that will set the agenda for the fourth decade of organizational institutionalism.
*Pursey Heugens*

The second edition of this Handbook remains must reading for any organization and management scholar. It provides a timely and comprehensive update of institutional
theory and its relationships with other organization theories.
*Andrew H. Van de Ven*