Institutions and Organizations

Ideas, Interests, and Identities

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Thoroughly updated content reflects new theory and research.
• Easy-to-follow, well organized chapter format offers improved readability and enhanced clarity to make teaching and learning easier and more effective.
• Expanded focus on institutional work allows for more robust exploration of the activities involved in constructing, maintaining, and reconfiguring institutional structures.
• Greater emphasis on institutional logics offers a more complete picture of the ideas that underlie and govern institutional processes.
• Expanded coverage of the nature and components of organization fields features detailed reviews of recent seminal studies.
• New commentary insightfully explores the challenges posed by employing institutional theory.
• Greater focus on the intermingling of social movement and institutional scholarship as well as on the importance of cross-level analysis allow for a more comprehensive approach.
• Greater attention to early theorists, including Tocqueville, W. I. Thomas, and Hughes, offers a solid historical and analytical context.

KEY FEATURES

• Each chapter emphasizes the best and most recent theoretical and empirical contributions.
• An elaboration of the author’s influential three pillars of institutions as part of a larger framework sheds light on the interplay between institutions and social systems.
• Three differing explanations and approaches of institutionalization—economic, sociological, and neo-institutional scholars in organizational studies—are expertly covered.
• The way that symbols, relations, routines, artifacts, and other carriers transmit institutional arrangements across time and space is explored.
•  A chapter is devoted to the theoretical and practical significance of organization fields.