How institutions matter! Part B / edited by Joel Gehman, Michael Lounsbury, Royston Greenwood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gehman, Joel, editor.

Lounsbury, Michael, editor.

Greenwood, Royston, editor.

Series:

Research in the sociology of organizations ; v.48, Part B.

Research in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; v. 48, Part B

Subjects (All):

Organizational behavior.

Management--Social aspects.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2017.

Summary:

This double volume presents a collection of 23 papers on how institutions matter to socio-economic life. The effort was seeded by the 2015 Alberta Institutions Conference, which brought together 108 participants from 14 countries and 51 different institutions. The resulting papers delve deeply into the practical impact an institutional approach enables, as well as how such research has the potential to influence policies relevant to critical institutional changes unfolding in the world today. In Volume 48A, the focus is on the micro foundations of institutional impacts. In Volume 48B, the focus is on the macro consequences of institutional arrangements. Looking across the two volumes, there are multiple theoretical, conceptual, methodological and practical points of convergence and divergence. Overall, the volumes highlight the many ways in which institutional processes and institutional researchers can contribute to our understanding of the micro foundations and macro consequences of institutions and their impacts on a wide variety of globally pressing issues, while also identifying a variety of fruitful directions for knowledge accumulation and development.

Contents:

Prelims

Preserving a settlement despite ongoing challenges: the case of native Indian gaming

Understanding "failed" markets: conflicting logics and dissonance in attempts to price the priceless child

Institutional hybridity in public sector reform: replacement, blending, or layering of administrative paradigms

Institutional maintenance through business collective action: the alcohol industrys engagement with the issue of alcohol-related harm

Achieving minimal consensus for new industries: bringing isomorphism back in

State mediation in market emergence: socially responsible investing in China

Intra-professional status, maintenance failure, and the reformation of the Scottish civil justice system

The performative puzzle: how institutions matter in marginalizing and reconstituting identities

Institutional constraints on the pursuit of racial justice

"Walk the line": how institutional influences constrain elites

Organization theory and the dilemmas of a post-corporate economy

About the authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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