Index

Microfoundations of Institutions

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ISSN: 0733-558X

Publication date: 25 November 2019

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(2019), "Index", Haack, P., Sieweke, J. and Wessel, L. (Ed.) Microfoundations of Institutions (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 65A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 291-300. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065A028

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INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” with numbers indicate notes.

Abandonment
, 270, 282–283

Action
, 155

collective
, 122–123

domains of institutional
, 44, 57–61

formation mechanism
, 23

micro-levels
, 44, 69

situated
, 19

Activism-resistant adopters
, 277

Actor
, 156

reflexivity
, 142

Administrative domain
, 58

legitimation in
, 50–51, 56

Adoption decisions
, 277

Ambiguous gatekeepers, market intermediaries as
, 77, 79

Analogical reasoning
, 76, 78

Analytical foundation for multi-level approach
, 44

Animal Liberation
, 182

Animal rights
, 178, 182

highly disruptive issues of
, 185

Anti-war movement
, 123

Argumentation, competitive process of
, 60

Artifacts

to institutions
, 228

technologies
, 225–226, 232n2

Attributes
, 79, 102–103, 237

Bacchus Canada
, 51

Bankers
, 139–140

“Bathtub” model
, 22–23, 25

Bayesian algorithm
, 200–201

Beer-brewing shops
, 46

Behavioral microfoundations
, 123

Behavioral perspective
, 14, 18–20, 120

Beliefs
, 121

“Black box” of institutions
, 28

Bottom-up process
, 106, 120–121

Boundary conditions and extensions
, 78–80

Bourdieu’s practice theory
, 13, 139

Brew on Premises Association of Ontario (BOPAO)
, 49–50, 52

British Columbia (BC)
, 46, 55

legitimation in administrative domain
, 56

legitimation in legal domain
, 55

legitimation in other provinces
, 56–57

legitimation in public domain
, 55–56

U-brew category legitimation in
, 55–57

Buffering complexity
, 103, 109–110

Building blocks of institutions

artifacts to institutions
, 228

institutionalization
, 219–224

institutions
, 219–224

personal culture to institutions
, 227

refurbished object account of institutions
, 224–227

specifying objects clarifying process accounts
, 229–230

specifying objects clarifying state accounts
, 228–229

specifying objects helps to discover new object/process links
, 230–231

Business model of law firm
, 258–259

Canadian Home Wine and Trade Association (CHWTA)
, 52, 56–57

Cannabis legalization movement
, 123

Category
, 68-69, 77–79

emergence
, 44

legitimacy
, 45–46

Chambers and Partners
, 260–261

Chief human resource officer (CHRO)
, 90–91

Christian Right movement
, 125

Cognition
, 114–115, 121, 241, 243

Cognitive Anthropology
, 156

Cognitive complexity

exploring antecedents and development of
, 115

high differentiation and high integration
, 107–109

high differentiation and low integration
, 109–110

low differentiation and low integration
, 110–112

and responses to multiple logics
, 106

Cognitive differentiation and integration
, 102–104

Cognitive generalization of events
, 138

Cognitive loading
, 147

Cognitive perspective
, 14–17, 120

Cognitive structural perspective on institutional complexity
, 101

external environment representations
, 102–104

self-representations
, 104–106

Cognitive templates
, 222

Collective action
, 122–123

challenges of
, 51–52

Collective belief attribution
, 218

Collective identity
, 122–123, 125

comparison of movement phases
, 125

lifestyle movements
, 126–131

social movements and identity
, 122–126

Communication
, 17, 183

Communicative perspective
, 14, 17–18, 120

Compartmentalization
, 109–110

Compensation disparity
, 258, 261

Competition
, 72, 74–76

Compliance
, 279

Computational methods
, 18

Conceptions of microfoundations of institutions
, 14–15, 20

“microfoundations as agency” argument
, 20–21

“microfoundations as levels” argument
, 21–22

“microfoundations as mechanisms” argument
, 22–23

Conceptual combination
, 76

Conceptualization
, 120, 156

Configurations of microfoundational research
, 24

Conformity
, 278–284

Congruence to field-wide consensus
, 207

Contentious politics
, 121

Contested sensemaking
, 183, 187–188

Contingency theory’s implicit model
, 271

Cross-level effects in legitimation process
, 60–62

Cross-sectional research designs
, 29, 210

Cultural consensus theory (CCT)
, 199–201

approach to microfoundations
, 201–202

ECO
, 210–211

expanding microfoundational research with
, 211

micro-level instantiations
, 198–199

microfoundational variables
, 212

microfoundations of ECO agency
, 203–210

questionnaire content
, 211–212

sample frame and macro-level of analysis
, 211

stage of institutionalization
, 212

Cultural-cognitive

based institutionalization
, 199

beliefs
, 222

dimension
, 218

elements
, 120, 201, 222

flavor
, 223

structures
, 137

Cultural/culture
, 138, 218, 224–225, 229, 232n3

competence
, 200

congruence
, 200

consensus
, 201

expertise
, 200

institutions
, 137

knowledge
, 155–156

material
, 157

ontology
, 224

processes
, 218

symbols
, 138, 143

truth
, 201

Customization
, 270, 280–281

Decision-making models
, 271–272

Declarative memory in human brain
, 138

Decoupling
, 85–86, 110, 138–139, 270, 278–280

experts and
, 87–88

HR generalist
, 92–94

life-world, realities, and relevances
, 88–90

methodology
, 90–91

subjective experience
, 86

Deinstitutionalization
, 252, 264–265

Discourses
, 52–53, 68

Discretionary ethics practices
, 207

Discursive competition
, 52–55

Discursive consciousness
, 136, 138–140

Dispositions
, 139–140

Domains of institutional action
, 44, 57–61

Dominant field-level logic
, 240

Dual internalization of institutions
, 137–141

Durable disposition
, 139

“Durkheimian” approach
, 220

Embeddedness
, 229

Embodied metaphors
, 143–144

“Embodiment” of praxis
, 139

Embracing complexity
, 103, 107–109

Emotions
, 114–115, 241

emotion-laden events
, 181

involvement
, 179

“Enlightened shareholder” logic
, 108

Equity partnerships
, 253, 257

Ethics and Compliance officers (ECOs)
, 203, 280

microfoundations of agency
, 203–210

Ethics and Compliance Officers Association (ECOA)
, 203

Ethnography
, 147

Ethnomethodology
, 12, 270

Evaluation
, 69, 77–78

Event history database
, 48

“Everyday transcending” realities
, 89

Experiments
, 31–32

designs
, 147–148

research on legitimacy
, 46

studies
, 147

Expert intermediaries
, 69–71, 77, 79

category distinctions
, 71

sense out of novelty
, 71–72

Expertise
, 69, 72–73

Experts
, 85–86

and decoupling
, 87–88

knowledge structures
, 71

External environment representations
, 102–104

Externalization theory
, 220

Fact-based sensebreaking
, 183

Fairness discourse
, 51–52

Federal tax agency
, 49–50

Ferment-on-Premise shops (FOP shops)
, 44, 46

“Ferment-on-premises” shops
, 44

Fiscal discourse of tax revenue maximization
, 53

Flow metaphor
, 23

Formal rules
, 86–87

Formalization
, 122–123

Fragmented core self
, 105

Framing
, 121

French gastronomy, study of
, 126

“Fruits of yoga”
, 158, 163, 168n4

“Garbage can” model
, 20

Gay rights movement
, 125

Gender balanced firms
, 263

Gender diversity
, 259, 261

German reunification, ramifications of
, 32

GLBT pastors
, 154

Habitualization
, 221, 223, 229

Herds and cascades among economists
, 274–275

Hermeneutic interpretation
, 96n2

Heterogeneity in adoption motivation
, 16

High self-pluralism and high self-unity
, 107–111

High self-pluralism and low self-unity
, 108–111

Highly disruptive issues
, 178

contribution to microfoundations of institutions
, 189–191

contribution to sensemaking
, 191

data analysis
, 183

data collection
, 183

institutional entrepreneurs
, 181–182

limitations and boundary conditions
, 191–192

methods
, 181

research context
, 182

sensemaking of highly disruptive issues
, 185

sensemaking of institutions and emotions role
, 180–181

sensemaking scholars
, 178–179

HIV-positive constituents
, 125–126

Hobby Brewers and Vintners Association (HBVA)
, 55

Hospitality Industry Coalition
, 55–56

HR generalist
, 92–94

Human capital
, 256

Human resource management (HRM)
, 86

knowledge
, 87

Hysteresis
, 145

“Ideational” paradigm
, 14

Identity
, 72–74, 119–126, 156, 168n1, 235–236, 245

control theory
, 86, 94

foundational and early literature in institutions
, 237–238

maintenance
, 16

within microfoundations of institutions
, 236–237

movements
, 121, 124–126

multiple theories at play
, 243–244

SIT dominates
, 238–241

social constructivist identity turn begins
, 241–243

theory
, 69

threat risk
, 79

Identity work
, 156–157, 159–160, 242

institutional meanings representations at individual level
, 160–161

tracing process as institutional work
, 161–165

Imposed relevances
, 89

Incremental institutional change
, 142

Individual characteristics and institutional change
, 257–260

Individual-level

characteristics
, 100

measurement
, 6

Ineffective sensemaking
, 183, 188–190

Informational conformity
, 28, 272–275, 280

empirical analyses
, 276–278

in institutional theory and research
, 275–278

theoretical arguments
, 275–276

Inhabited institutionalism
, 13

Institutional change
, 44, 77–78, 136, 252, 263

analysis
, 178

contribution to institutional theory
, 263

data collection
, 260

and discursive consciousness
, 141–143

empirical setting and hypotheses in context
, 256

individual and organizational characteristics and institutional change
, 257–260

institutional theory
, 251–252

integrative framework
, 141

law firms
, 256–257

limitations and future research
, 263

microfoundations and
, 253–256

and practical consciousness
, 143–146

results
, 261–263

unpacking relationship between cognition and
, 137–146

variable definition
, 261

Institutional complexity
, 100

cognitive complexity and responses to multiple logics
, 106–112

cognitive structural perspective on
, 101–106

experimental investigation of micro-level institutional processes
, 114

exploring antecedents and development of cognitive complexity
, 115

extending notion of self-pluralism
, 113–114

implications for future research
, 113–115

interplay between cognition and emotions
, 114–115

Institutional theory
, 11, 17, 180, 218, 220, 224, 237, 245, 251

alternative model
, 272

contingency to
, 271–272

contribution to
, 263

foundational works
, 270

microfoundations agenda in
, 252

normative and informational conformity in
, 275–278

research in
, 68

Institutional/institutions
, 120, 219, 252

analytical procedures
, 158

artifacts to
, 228

competition
, 50

contestation
, 142–143

data collection
, 158

effects
, 221

entrepreneurs
, 4–5, 142, 178–179

entrepreneurship
, 20, 142

evolution
, 143–145

fields and modes of consciousness
, 140–141

foundational and early literature in
, 237–238

generations
, 144

grounded in dispositions
, 140

identity within microfoundations of
, 236–237

identity work
, 160–165

at individual level
, 153–157

institutional meanings at individual level
, 172–176

logics
, 20, 100, 126, 154, 199

meanings
, 153–154, 156, 160–161

microfoundations
, 4

modification
, 141–142

object approaches
, 221–223

object-neutral account of
, 223–224

objects
, 229

personal culture to
, 227

pressure
, 16

process approaches
, 220–221

refurbished object account of
, 224–227

revolution
, 145–146

state approaches
, 220

terminology
, 27

widening scope to explore yoga as facet of individuals’ self-identity
, 159–160

work
, 20

yoga as institutional context
, 157–158

yogic meanings comparison
, 159

Institutionalization
, 23, 122–123, 154, 183, 218–219, 224–225, 227

artifacts and material technologies
, 225–226

object approaches
, 221–223

object-neutral account of institutions
, 223–224

practices and organizational routines
, 227

process approaches
, 220–221

of rules
, 95

rules and semiotic codes
, 226

sayings and vocabularies in fields
, 226–227

stage of
, 212

state approaches
, 220

Instrumental movements
, 124

Intellectually pluralistic approach
, 243

Intense negative emotions
, 181

Internalization of institutions
, 138–139

Internet-mediated communication
, 182

Interpretive research
, 88

Interpretive yogic schemes
, 160

Intrinsic relevances
, 89

Intrinsic value
, 182

Israeli Yoga Teachers Association
, 157

Jeppersonian process theory
, 222

Judging
, 185–186

Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree
, 207

Knowledge
, 89, 199

cultural
, 155–156

explicit form of
, 155

generalized
, 138

Language games
, 17

Law firms
, 256–257

Layered ontology
, 25

Layering
, 185–186

Legal domain
, 58–60

legitimation in
, 49–50, 55

Legitimacy theory
, 44

Legitimation
, 29

in administrative domain
, 50–51, 56

in legal domain
, 49–50, 55

in other provinces
, 56–57

in public domain
, 55–56

“Levels of analysis”
, 21–22

Leverage
, 253, 261

LGBT
, 237, 242

Life stories
, 156, 168n2

Life-world
, 88–90, 94

Lifestyle institutions
, 124

Lifestyle movements
, 121, 126, 132n1

dynamics
, 128–131

in New York Times
, 127

references to specific
, 128

Liquor License Act
, 52

Liquor License Board of Ontario (LLBO)
, 49

Logical mode
, 155

Logics
, 3–4

Long-term incentive plans (LTIPs)
, 279

Low coherence in institutional infrastructure
, 140–141

Low self-pluralism and high self-unity
, 108–110, 112

Macro-levels
, 25, 136

Macro-studies
, 88

Macrofoundations
, 5, 27

of institutions
, 14

Market intermediaries
, 68–69

as ambiguous gatekeepers
, 77, 79

boundary conditions and extensions
, 78–80

competition
, 74–76

evolution of category systems, and institutional change
, 77–78

as experts
, 69–72, 77

identity
, 72–74

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO)
, 128–131

Material technologies
, 225–226

Materiality
, 228

Mature category systems
, 79

Meaning-based sensebreaking
, 183

Mechanism-based theorizing, parsimonious model of
, 23

Meso level processes
, 25, 45

Method specialists
, 33

Methodological individualism
, 88

Micro-levels
, 25–26, 136

actions
, 44, 69

factors influencing field-wide cultural congruence
, 209

factors influencing subcultural congruence
, 209

institutional process investigation
, 114

processes
, 198

Microfoundations
, 4–5, 69

CCT approach to
, 201–202

conceptions
, 14–15, 20–23

configurations of microfoundational research
, 24

congruence to field-wide consensus
, 207

congruence to subgroup consensus
, 207

control variables
, 208

of ECO agency
, 203–204

experiments
, 31–32

growing popularity of
, 12

identity within
, 236

and institutional change
, 253–256

of institutional theory
, 3, 6

of institutions
, 11–12, 14–15, 189–191

legal educational and professional background
, 207–208

levels of analysis
, 24–26

loadings and subculture mean scores for eco intersubjective beliefs
, 206

methods
, 205, 207

mixed methods
, 29–30

movement
, 11, 180

multi-level analysis
, 30–31

needs
, 26–27

organization’s implementation of discretionary ethics practices
, 207

perspectives on microfoundations
, 15–20

processes
, 120

research
, 120

results for consensus content
, 208

results for micro-level factors
, 209–210

studying
, 5–6, 28–33

survey design and sample
, 205

theory and hypotheses
, 204–205

time for retooling
, 32–33

variables
, 212

“Microfoundations as agency” argument
, 13, 15, 20–21

“Microfoundations as levels” argument
, 13, 15, 21–22

“Microfoundations as mechanisms” argument
, 13, 15, 22–23

Mid-life crisis
, 13

Mixed methods
, 29–30

framework for discourse analysis
, 18

Moral legitimacy formation
, 18

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
, 51, 123

Movement organizers
, 122

Multi-level analysis
, 30–31

Multi-level perspective of decoupling
, 25

Multi-level theory of institutional contestation

category legitimacy
, 45–46

cross-level effects in legitimation process
, 60–62

data analysis
, 48

data collection
, 47

domains of institutional action
, 57–60

findings
, 48–57

historical background
, 48

micro in organizational research
, 45

research design
, 46–47

U-brew category legitimation
, 49–57

Multimodal texts
, 183, 190

Multiple theories at play
, 243–244

Narration
, 143

Narratives
, 48

Natural experiments
, 31–32

Negative emotions
, 184, 186, 191

Negotiation
, 110–111

Neo-institutional theory (NIT)
, 3–4, 85, 87, 135, 154, 178

microfoundation
, 137

New microfoundations of institutions
, 21

New social movements
, 124–125

“New-to-institutions” methodologies
, 6

Non-contentual disposition
, 139

Non-declarative memory
, 139

Non-equity partnership
, 253, 256, 258

Nonprofessional intermediaries
, 74

Nonprofitable firms
, 258, 262

Normative conformity
, 28, 272–275

empirical analyses
, 276–278

in institutional theory and research
, 275–278

theoretical arguments
, 275–276

Normative isomorphism
, 275–276

Norms
, 121

Novel complexity
, 100

Novel institutional complexity
, 102, 112

Novice intermediaries
, 70–71

Object approaches
, 221–223, 225

Object theory
, 222

Object-neutral account of institutions
, 223–224

Objectification
, 221, 223, 230

Occupy Wall Street movement
, 123

“Omnibus” conception of culture
, 218

Ontario, U-brew category legitimation in
, 49

in administrative domain
, 50–51

challenges of collective action
, 51–52

discursive competition
, 52–55

emergence of opposition
, 49

institutional discourses
, 53

in legal domain
, 49–50

in public domain
, 51

validations of discourses
, 54

Oppositional identities
, 122

Organizational behavior (OB)
, 240

Organizational decision-making
, 270

conformity and post-adoption behaviors
, 278–284

contingency to institutional theory
, 271–272

methodological considerations
, 283–284

normative vs. informational conformity
, 272–278

Organizational/organizations
, 87, 89

categories
, 45

characteristics and institutional change
, 257–260

climate research
, 30–31

innovations
, 280

institutionalism
, 34n1

level
, 89

routines
, 227, 232n1

scholars
, 68

success
, 87

theory
, 245

Outside experts
, 87

“Paradigmatic” mode
, 155

Paradox of embedded agency
, 20, 136

Parliamentary Information and Research Service (PIRS)
, 47

Partnership
, 256, 260

People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
, 179, 182–183, 185

Performance
, 125

Performance-adverse mentality
, 90

Personal culture
, 226

to institutions
, 227

Phenomenological lens
, 86, 94–95

Phenomenology
, 94, 270

Pluralism
, 199

Popular excitement
, 122

Positive emotions
, 184, 186

Positive engaged sensemaking
, 179, 183, 185–187, 189

sensegiving account
, 185–186

sensemaking mechanisms
, 186–187

Positive evaluations
, 259

Positive superficial sensemaking
, 183, 187

Post-adoption behaviors
, 278–284

Power
, 19–20

Practical consciousness
, 136–137, 139–140

Practices
, 218

practice-driven institutionalism
, 19

theory
, 86

Process approaches
, 220–221

Process theory
, 221, 223–224

Professional intermediaries
, 74

Professional service firms
, 265

Profitability
, 257-258

Psychology of mental structures
, 15

Psychology theory
, 244

research in social psychology
, 273–274

Public domain
, 58

legitimation in
, 51, 55–56

Quest for legitimacy
, 276

Real-time decisions
, 147

Reality
, 86, 88–90

Recycling programs
, 276

Reflexible knowledge
, 138

Refurbished object account of institutions
, 224–227

Regression discontinuity designs
, 32

Regulation 58/00
, 52

Repurchase agreements
, 279

Reputation
, 259, 261

Retention
, 282–283

Rigid core self
, 105

Role identity
, 16, 121

Same-sex partner benefits
, 277

Sanctioning behavior
, 69

Scandinavian institutionalism
, 13

“Schemas”
, 222

Schematic disposition
, 139

Scientific inquiry with intellectual fatalism
, 27

Sedimentation
, 223

Selective coupling
, 108

Self-identity
, 154–157

construction
, 17

Self-pluralism
, 104–106

extending notion of
, 113–114

Self-representations
, 104–106

Self-unity
, 104–106

Selfhood
, 155

Seminal concepts in institutional theory
, 25–26

Semiotic codes
, 226

Sensebreaking
, 180

Sensebridging
, 183–184, 186, 190–191

Sensegiving
, 143

accounts
, 16

of highly disruptive issues
, 180–181, 184

Sensemaking
, 16, 86, 178–179

for highly disruptive issues
, 184–185

contested
, 187–188

ineffective
, 188–189

of institutions and emotions role
, 180–181

positive engaged
, 185–187

positive superficial
, 187

scholars
, 178–179

Shared characteristic
, 124

Shared constructs
, 31

“Shareholder value maximization” logic
, 108

Single theory of identity
, 244

Situated action
, 19

Situational compliance
, 111

Situational frames
, 19

Situational mechanism
, 22–23, 120

Social

conformity research in social psychology
, 273–274

construction
, 223

constructivism
, 242

evaluations
, 259

ferment
, 122

hazard discourse
, 53

identity
, 241–242

mechanisms
, 44

movement theory
, 237

movements
, 121–126

process
, 178

psychological processes
, 5

psychologists
, 274

situations
, 19

world
, 89

Social constructivist
, 244

approach
, 243

identity
, 241–243

Social identity theory (SIT)
, 236, 238–241, 246n2

Socialization
, 138

Socially constructed knowledge
, 201

Socio-scientific hermeneutics
, 91

Speech acts
, 17

Standard research strategies
, 29

State approaches
, 220, 227

Strategic human resources
, 258–259

Structural interactionist
, 244

Structuration theory
, 244

Structure hypothesis
, 91–92

Struggling with complexity
, 103, 110–112

Subcultural congruence
, 209

Subjectively centered life-world
, 88

Symbolic interactionism
, 13

Taken-for-grantedness
, 16, 18, 136–138, 160, 199, 223

Tax revenue maximization, fiscal discourse of
, 53

Taxonomic approach
, 26

Theorization
, 143

identities
, 154–155

institutionalization
, 218

Theory-method co-evolution
, 32

Thomas theorem
, 89

Time fixed-effects
, 261

Time for retooling
, 32–33

Top-down process
, 120

Toronto Board of Health
, 51

Total quality management (TQM)
, 281

Tracing process of identity work
, 161

depth
, 161–163

importance
, 163

point of entrance
, 163–164

volume
, 164–165

Trade association websites
, 48

Transformational mechanisms
, 23, 31, 120–121

Trust

production
, 5

in US Congress
, 6

U-brew category legitimation

in BC
, 55–57

in Ontario
, 49–55

U-brews
, 44

shops
, 46–47

U-vint shops
, 46–47

Uncertainty
, 259

Validity beliefs
, 46

Values
, 121

Vegetarianism
, 127–128

Verbalizable knowledge
, 138

Viewer engagement
, 183

Vocabularies
, 218

Web of Science
, 12, 246n2

Women’s movement
, 178

Written law
, 58–60

Yoga
, 160

as institutional context
, 157–158

widening scope to explore yoga as facet of individuals’ self-identity
, 159–160

yogic interpretive schemes
, 158

yogic meanings assimilation into one’s self-concept
, 160–165

YouTube
, 179, 182, 190

Prelims
Section 1: Prologue
What are MicroFoundations? Why and How to Study Them?
Section 2: Introduction
Microfoundations and Multi-Level Research on Institutions
Section 3: Cognitive Perspective on Microfoundations
Chapter 1: Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Institutional Contestation: Exploring Category Legitimation Across Domains of Institutional Action
Chapter 2: When Do Market Intermediaries Sanction Categorical Deviation? The Role of Expertise, Identity, and Competition
Chapter 3: “The HR Generalist is Dead”: A Phenomenological Perspective on Decoupling
Chapter 4: Why Do Individuals Perceive and Respond to the Same Institutional Demands Differently? On the Cognitive Structural Underpinnings of Institutional Complexity
Chapter 5: The Generativity of Collective Identity: Identity Movements as Mechanisms for New Institutions
Chapter 6: Embodied and Reflexive Agency in Institutional Fields: An Integrative Neo-Institutional Perspective of Institutional Change
Chapter 7: How Do Institutions Take Root at the Individual Level?
Chapter 8: Sensegiving and Sensemaking of Highly Disruptive Issues: Animal Rights Experienced Through PETA YouTube Videos
Chapter 9: Connecting the Tree to the Rainforest: Examining the Microfoundations of Institutions with Cultural Consensus Theory
Chapter 10: Specifying the “What” and Separating the “How”: Doings, Sayings, Codes, and Artifacts as the Building Blocks of Institutions
Chapter 11: Identity within the Microfoundations of Institutions: A Historical Review
Chapter 12: MicroFoundations of Institutional Change in the Career Structure of UK Elite Law Firms
Chapter 13: Bases of Conformity and Institutional Theory: Understanding Organizational Decision-Making
Index