Institutional explanations have been, and continue to be, one of the most important means of understanding the choices made by governments and other actors in society. This four volume set brings together a collection of the key readings in institutional theory and its applications to political phenomena. Although the principal focus of these readings is on institutional theory based in political science, articles from other disciplines that have been central to the development of theory in this discipline, or that have substantial relevance for political phenomena, have also been included. Forming part of the SAGE Library of Political Science, this set contains a substantial overall introduction and conclusion as well as shorter introductions to each Part. Part One: Institutionalisms, Old and New Part Two: The Revival of Institutionalism Part Three: Approaches to Institutionalism Part Four: Applications of Institutionalism Part Five: Theoretical Problems Part Six: Institutionalism as Methodology Part Seven: Critiques of Institutionalism; Part Eight: Conclusion.
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. Guillen 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 E