Although narrative analysis has made significant advances in organization and
management studies, scholars have not yet unleashed its full potential. This review provides …

There is an emergent identity work perspective that draws on multiple intertwined streams of
established identities theorizing and identities-related research. This perspective is …

The widespread implementation of algorithmic technologies in organizations prompts
questions about how algorithms may reshape organizational control. We use perspective of …

How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and
organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines …

Institutional approaches to organization studies focus attention on the relationships among
organizations and the fields in which they operate, highlighting in particular the role of …

We use a dialectical perspective to provide a unique framework for understanding
institutional change that more fully captures its totalistic, historical, and dynamic nature, as …

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 …

Legitimacy is a fundamental concept of organizational institutionalism. It influences how
organizations behave and has been shown to affect their performance and survival (Pollock …

This paper describes the role of rhetoric in legitimating profound institutional change. In
1997, a Big Five accounting firm purchased a law firm, triggering a jurisdictional struggle …

Ecosystems—communities of interdependent yet hierarchically independent heterogeneous
participants who collectively generate an ecosystem value proposition—often emerge …