The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism brings together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory and an array of top academic contributors. Now in its Second Edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and reorganized, with all chapters updated to maintain a mix of theory, how to conduct institutional organizational analysis, and contemporary empirical work.

Table of Contents

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