Institutional Theory in Organization Studies (SAGE Library in Business and Management)

Institutional theory is a wide ranging body of work that has had, and continues to have, a huge impact in political science, sociology and organization studies. However, there remains a gap for a collection that addresses organizational institutionalism - by far the most used perspective within organization and management theory.

From the authors of the SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, this major work takes stock of institutional theory by reviewing its foundations, current status and emerging new directions with a selection of the seminal articles that have appeared over the last 60 years.

Royston Greenwood is the Telus Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Alberta, Canada and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. Professor Greenwood serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals and is a founding co-editor of Strategic Organization. He has been a Guest Editor for the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behaviour, and Organization Studies.

Kerstin Sahlin is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor in Business Studies, Public Management at Uppsala University. Professor Sahlin is a Member of Coimbra Group Executive Board, the boards of the University of Oslo and the Southern African-Norica Centre (SANORD) and served as a member of the Organization Studies editorial board from 2002 to 2008. Her research interests lie in transnational governance, public management reform and management ideas and their circulation.

Roy Suddaby is Eldon Foot Chair in Law and Society, Eric Geddes Professor of Business and Director of the Canadian Centre of Corporate Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Alberta, Canada. Professor Suddaby is also Visiting Professor in the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University and the current Editor of the Academy of Management Review (2011-2014), as well as serving as a board member of Organization Studies.

Christine Oliver is Professor of Organization Studies, Henry J. Knowles Chair in Organizational Strategy and the Co-Director of the PhD Program at Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada. Professor Oliver was Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly from 1997 to 2003. Her research areas of expertise are institutional theory, interorganizational relations and regulatory context of business strategy.