Prelims

How Institutions Matter!

ISBN: 978-1-78635-430-3, eISBN: 978-1-78635-429-7

ISSN: 0733-558X

Publication date: 15 December 2016

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(2016), "Prelims", Gehman, J., Lounsbury, M. and Greenwood, R. (Ed.) How Institutions Matter! (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 48A), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X201600048A013

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HOW INSTITUTIONS MATTER!

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS

Series Editor: Michael Lounsbury

Recent Volumes:

Volume 36: The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice – Looking Forward at Forty
Volume 37: Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People’s Potentials
Volume 38: Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research
Volume 39A: Institutional Logics in Action, Part A
Volume 39B: Institutional Logics in Action, Part B
Volume 40: Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks
Volume 41: Religion and Organization Theory
Volume 42: Organizational Transformation and Scientific Change: The Impact of Institutional Restructuring on Universities and Intellectual Innovation
Volume 43: Elites on Trial
Volume 44: Institutions and Ideals: Philip Selznick’s Legacy for Organizational Studies
Volume 45: Towards a Comparative Institutionalism: Forms, Dynamics and Logics across the Organizational Fields of Health and Higher Education
Volume 46: The University Under Pressure
Volume 47: The Structuring of Work in Organizations

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 48A

HOW INSTITUTIONS MATTER!

EDITED BY

JOEL GEHMAN

University of Alberta, Canada

MICHAEL LOUNSBURY

University of Alberta, Canada

ROYSTON GREENWOOD

University of Alberta, Canada

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List of Contributors

Michelle Arthur Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Marco Clemente SKK Graduate School of Business, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Jeannette A. Colyvas School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Giuseppe Delmestri Institute for Change Management and Management Development, Department of Management, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
Gili S. Drori Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Nathanael J. Fast Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Joel Gehman Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Vern L. Glaser Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Mary Ann Glynn Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Elizabeth Goodrick College of Business, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Sandy E. Green, Jr. College of Business and Economics, California State University Northridge, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Royston Greenwood Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Robin Gustafsson Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Derek J. Harmon Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Stefan Jonsson Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Allen K. Kim Department of Computer Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, USA
Debbie H. Kim School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Thomas B. Lawrence Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Christi Lockwood Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Michael Lounsbury Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Renate E. Meyer WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria; and Copenhagen School of Business, Copenhagen, Denmark
William Ocasio Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
M. Paola Ometto Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Karen D. W. Patterson Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Briana Preminger Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and SKEMA Business School, Sophia Antipolis, France
Jill M. Purdy Milgard School of Business, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, USA
Chris Rowell Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Jean-François Soublière Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Tracy A. Thompson Milgard School of Business, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, USA
Marvin Washington Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Tammar B. Zilber Jerusalem School of Business, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Editorial Advisory Board

SERIES EDITOR

Michael Lounsbury Professor of Strategic Management & Organization, Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of Alberta School of Business, Alberta, Canada

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Howard E. Aldrich

University of North Carolina, USA

Christine Beckman

University of Maryland, USA

Jeannette Colyvas

Northwestern University, USA

Barbara Czarniawska

Göteborg University, Sweden

Gerald F. Davis

University of Michigan, USA

Marie-Laure Djelic

ESSEC Business School, France

Frank R. Dobbin

Harvard University, USA

Royston Greenwood

University of Alberta, Canada

Mauro Guillen

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Paul M. Hirsch

Northwestern University, USA

Candace Jones

University of Edinburgh, UK

Brayden King

Northwestern University, USA

Ann Langley

HEC Montreal, Canada

Renate Meyer

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

Mark Mizruchi

University of Michigan, USA

Nelson Phillips

Imperial College London, UK

Walter W. Powell

Stanford University, USA

Marc Schneiberg

Reed College, USA

W. Richard Scott

Stanford University, USA

Sarah Soule

Stanford University, USA

Haridimos Tsoukas

ALBA, Greece

Eero Vaara

Aalto, Finland