This article reviews research in Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) and suggests directions for its
development. The power of this perspective lies in its ability to explain how strategy-making …

The study of culture is on the rise; still, this popularity comes with the cost of increasing
fragmentation, as definitions and conceptualizations proliferate. The objectives of this review …

As well as review the literature on the notion of institutional entrepreneurship introduced by
Paul DiMaggio in 1988, we propose a model of the process of institutional entrepreneurship …

'Some argue that institutionalism has become the default theory in management and
organisation studies. Such a status requires continuing refinement and challenge. Drawing …

A longstanding question in organization research is what makes organizations more or less
similar to each other. Early organization theorists pointed out that organizations that share …

We review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined the strategies by which
organizations navigate institutionally diverse settings and capture rents outside of the …

Although early neo-institutional studies did not explicitly tackle the issue of agency, more
recent studies about institutional entrepreneurship have brought it to the forefront …

We extend research on the diffusion of corporate practices by providing a framework for
studying practice variation during diffusion processes. Specifically, we theorize about how …

In this chapter, we review the emerging and rapidly growing body of organizational research
on institutional entrepreneurship. This term refers to the 'activities of actors who have an …

The relationship between power and institutions is an intimate one. Institutions exist to the
extent that they are powerful–the extent to which they affect the behaviors, beliefs and …