In early June, some 140 institutional theorists from around the world gathered at Harvard Business School to address head-on how institutional theory research and tools can help practitioners ...

Institutional theory unfortunately has a certain level of arbitrariness to the conferment of status, since the art world is ultimately a social construction and thus is subject to change and ...

We then present the different phases of the process of institutional entrepreneurship from the emergence of institutional entrepreneurs to their implementation of change. Finally, we highlight future ...

Davis, Gerald F., and Christopher Marquis. "Prospects for Organizational Theory in the Early 21st Century: Institutional Fields and Mechanisms." Organization Science 16, no. 4 (July–August 2005): ...