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On Practice and Institution

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Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Series Editor: Michael Lounsbury

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Research in the Sociology of Organizations𢀃Volume 70

On Practice and Institution: Theorizing the Interface

Edited By

Michael Lounsbury

University of Alberta, Canada

Deborah A. Anderson

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

And

Paul Spee

University of Queensland, Australia

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

List of Contributors

Research in the Sociology of Organizations Advisory Board (rev. September 2020)

Series Editor

Michael Lounsbury

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

University of Alberta School of Business

Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7 CANADA

ph (780) 492-1684; email: ml37@ualberta.ca

RSO Advisory Board

Howard E. Aldrich, University of North Carolina, USA

Shaz Ansari, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Christine Beckman, University of Southern California, USA

Marya Besharov, Oxford University, United Kingdom

Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Lisa Cohen, McGill University, Canada

Jeannette Colyvas, Northwestern University, USA

Erica Coslor, University of Melbourne, Australia

Gerald F. Davis, University of Michigan, USA

Peer Fiss, University of Southern California, USA

Mary Ann Glynn, Boston College, USA

Nina Granqvist, Aalto University School of Business, Finland

Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta, Canada

Stine Grodal, Boston University, USA

Markus A. Hoellerer, University of New South Wales, Australia

Ruthanne Huising, emlyon business school, France

Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto, Canada

Brayden G. King, Northwestern University, USA

Tom Lawrence, Oxford University, United Kingdom

Johanna Mair, Hertie School, Germany

Renate Meyer, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Marc Schneiberg, Reed College, USA

Marc-David Seidel, University of British Columbia, Canada

Paul Spee, University of Queensland, Australia

Paul Tracey, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Kerstin Sahlin, Uppsala University, Sweden

Sarah Soule, Stanford University, USA

Eero Vaara, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Marc Ventresca, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Maxim Voronov, York University, Canada

Filippo Carlo Wezel USI Lugano, Switzerland

Melissa Wooten, Rutgers University, USA

April Wright, University of Queensland, Australia

Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Foreword: Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO) publishes cutting edge empirical research and theoretical papers that seek to enhance our understanding of organizations and organizing as pervasive and fundamental aspects of society and economy. We seek provocative papers that push the frontiers of current conversations, that help to revive old ones, or that incubate and develop new perspectives. Given its successes in this regard, RSO has become an impactful and indispensable fount of knowledge for scholars interested in organizational phenomena and theories. RSO is indexed and ranks highly in Scopus/SCImago as well as in the Academic Journal Guide published by the Chartered Association of Business schools.

As one of the most vibrant areas in the social sciences, the sociology of organizations engages a plurality of empirical and theoretical approaches to enhance our understanding of the varied imperatives and challenges that these organizations and their organizers face. Of course, there is a diversity of formal and informal organizations – from for-profit entities to non-profits, state and public agencies, social enterprises, communal forms of organizing, non-governmental associations, trade associations, publicly traded, family owned and managed, private firms – the list goes on! Organizations, moreover, can vary dramatically in size from small entrepreneurial ventures to large multi-national conglomerates to international governing bodies such as the United Nations.

Empirical topics addressed by Research in the Sociology of Organizations include: the formation, survival, and growth or organizations; collaboration and competition between organizations; the accumulation and management of resources and legitimacy; and how organizations or organizing efforts cope with a multitude of internal and external challenges and pressures. Particular interest is growing in the complexities of contemporary organizations as they cope with changing social expectations and as they seek to address societal problems related to corporate social responsibility, inequality, corruption and wrongdoing, and the challenge of new technologies. As a result, levels of analysis reach from the individual, to the organization, industry, community and field, and even the nation-state or world society. Much research is multi-level and embraces both qualitative and quantitative forms of data.

Diverse theory is employed or constructed to enhance our understanding of these topics. While anchored in the discipline of sociology and the field of management, Research in the Sociology of Organizations also welcomes theoretical engagement that draws on other disciplinary conversations – such as those in political science or economics, as well as work from diverse philosophical traditions. RSO scholarship has helped push forward a plethora theoretical conversations on institutions and institutional change, networks, practice, culture, power, inequality, social movements, categories, routines, organization design and change, configurational dynamics and many other topics.

Each volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations tends to be thematically focused on a particular empirical phenomenon (e.g., creative industries, multinational corporations, entrepreneurship) or theoretical conversation (e.g., institutional logics, actors and agency, microfoundations). The series publishes papers by junior as well as leading international scholars, and embraces diversity on all dimensions. If you are scholar interested in organizations or organizing, I hope you find Research in the Sociology of Organizations to be an invaluable resource as you develop your work.

Professor Michael Lounsbury

Series Editor, Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

University of Alberta