Institutional Contradictions, Praxis, and Institutional Change: A Dialectical Perspective

The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

1983 • 30,238 citations

Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

1977 • 25,202 citations

The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields

2004 • 24,090 citations

Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach

1984 • 23,094 citations

The Social Construction of Reality

1967 • 14,084 citations

Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness

1997 • 9,305 citations

The constitution of society

1984 • 9,236 citations

Institutions and organizations

1995 • 8,595 citations

The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis.

1993 • 8,582 citations

Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies

1986 • 8,006 citations

The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

1991 • 7,354 citations

Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events

1989 • 6,966 citations

Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation

1986 • 6,153 citations

Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments

1986 • 5,995 citations

Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes

1991 • 5,883 citations

Organizational Learning

1988 • 5,567 citations

Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems

1988 • 5,481 citations

The new institutionalism in organizational analysis

1992 • 5,199 citations

Labor and Monopoly Capital

1974 • 5,096 citations

What Is Agency?

1998 • 4,999 citations

A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation

1992 • 4,951 citations

The Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence

1977 • 2,992 citations

Interest and Agency in Institutional Theory

1988 • 2,968 citations

History and Class Consciousness

1923 • 2,821 citations

Bringing Society Back In : Symbols, Practices, and Institutional Contradictions

1991 • 2,771 citations

Understanding Radical Organizational Change: Bringing Together the Old and the New Institutionalism

1996 • 2,633 citations

Impression management: A literature review and two-component model.

1990 • 2,633 citations

Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution

1997 • 2,520 citations

Frontiers in social movement theory

1993 • 2,499 citations

Institutional Theories of Organization

1987 • 2,333 citations

INSTITUTIONAL EVOLUTION AND CHANGE: ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE U.S. CHEMICAL INDUSTRY.

1999 • 2,201 citations

Institutional conditions for diffusion

1993 • 2,067 citations

Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century

1980 • 1,880 citations

The Antecedents of Deinstitutionalization

1992 • 1,657 citations

Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law

1992 • 1,508 citations

Design and Devotion: Surges of Rational and Normative Ideologies of Control in Managerial Discourse

1992 • 1,447 citations

POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONALISM: Explaining Durability and Change

1999 • 1,400 citations

Convergent Stakeholder Theory

1999 • 1,298 citations

Institutional Patterns and Organizations: Culture and Environment.

1989 • 1,219 citations

Social Skill and Institutional Theory

1997 • 1,173 citations

Institutional Change and the Transformation of Interorganizational Fields: An Organizational History of the U.S. Radio Broadcasting Industry

1991 • 1,158 citations

Toward a Rational Society

2023 • 1,111 citations

The Social Construction of Organizational Knowledge: A Study of the Uses of Coercive, Mimetic, and Normative Isomorphism

1999 • 1,085 citations

Managing Organizational Legitimacy in the California Cattle Industry: The Construction and Effectiveness of Verbal Accounts

1994 • 1,038 citations

Impression Management in the Organization

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A Social Movement Perspective on Corporate Control

1994 • 887 citations

Organizations: A Dialectical View

1977 • 884 citations

The Dynamics of Institutionalization: Transformation Processes in Norwegian Fisheries

1995 • 826 citations

Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The Historical Transformation of Labor in the United States

1987 • 801 citations

Exploring the Limits of the New Institutionalism: The Causes and Consequences of Illegitimate Organizational Change

1996 • 768 citations

Celebration and Suppression: The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement

1997 • 767 citations

Manufacturing Consent

1982 • 762 citations

An Institutional Perspective on the Rise, Social Transformation, and Fall of a University Budget Category

1988 • 685 citations

Institutional Sources of Practice Variation: Staffing College and University Recycling Programs

2001 • 666 citations

Business Planning as Pedagogy: Language and Control in a Changing Institutional Field

1998 • 636 citations

First-Order, Second-Order, and Third-Order Change and Organization Development Interventions: A Cognitive Approach

1987 • 633 citations

PUTTING GIDDENS INTO ACTION: SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND MANAGERIAL AGENCY

1992 • 604 citations

Clothes Make the Person? The Tailoring of Legitimating Accounts and the Social Construction of Identity

2002 • 591 citations

An Essay on Liberation

1969 • 583 citations

The social psychology of collective action.

1992 • 580 citations

Political Dynamics and the Circulation of Power: CEO Succession in U.S. Industrial Corporations, 1960-1990

1994 • 562 citations

Business planning as pedagogy: language and control in a changing institutional field

2007 • 555 citations

Sedimentation and Transformation in Organizational Change: The Case of Canadian Law Firms

1996 • 553 citations

The Politics of Production

1985 • 547 citations

Ending the Family Quarrel

1997 • 545 citations

ISOMORPHISM AND EXTERNAL SUPPORT IN CONFLICTING INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS: A STUDY OF DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT UNITS.

1991 • 476 citations

The Downside of Downsizing

1997 • 468 citations

CRITIQUE OF DIALECTICAL REASON

1978 • 452 citations

Critique of Dialectical Reason

1960 • 447 citations

Social Psychology in Organizations: Advances in Theory and Research

1994 • 428 citations

Organizational Discretion in Responding to Institutional Practices: Hospitals and Cesarean Births

1996 • 417 citations

The Nature of Work: An Introduction to Debates on the Labour Process

1997 • 386 citations

Integrating Transaction Cost and Institutional Theories: Toward a Constrained-Efficiency Framework for Understanding Organizational Design Adoption

1997 • 348 citations

Toward a Rational Society

1971 • 343 citations

Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century.

1980 • 337 citations

Vive la crise!

1988 • 316 citations

Praxis and Action

1972 • 258 citations

Songs of Ourselves

2000 • 252 citations

The Organizational Transformation Process: The Micropolitics of Dissonance Reduction and the Alignment of Logics of Action

1996 • 250 citations

Patterns in the Diffusion of Strategies Across Organizations: Insights from the Innovation Diffusion Literature

1998 • 234 citations

Bureaucracy as Praxis: Toward a Political Phenomenology of Formal Organizations

1978 • 231 citations

Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity.

1973 • 222 citations

Introduction: Critical Perspective on Organizational Control

1998 • 216 citations

The Nature of Work

1989 • 209 citations

Interpretations of Stress in Institutions: The Cultural Production of Ambiguity and Burnout

1994 • 208 citations

The Institutional Framing of Policy Debates

1999 • 198 citations

Symbolic Processes in the Implementation of Technological Change: A Symbolic Interactionist Study of Work Computerization

1993 • 176 citations

SYMBOLIC PROCESSES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: A SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONS STUDY OF WORK COMPUTERIZATION.

1993 • 113 citations

Organizational Contradictions in Public Bureaucracies: Toward a Marxian Theory of Organizations

1977 • 88 citations

How Institutions Change

2003 • 84 citations

"When the Sleeper Wakes": A Short Story Extending Themes in Radical Organization Theory

1985 • 75 citations

Fields, Power and Social Skill: a Critical Analysis of the New Institutionalisms

2001 • 62 citations

A Mixed-Motive Perspective on the Economics Versus Environment Debate

1999 • 56 citations

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1955 • 0 citations