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Research in the Sociology of Organizations

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Research in the Sociology Of Organizations  Volume 68

Macrofoundations: Exploring the Institutionally Situated Nature of Activity

Edited By

Christopher W. J. Steele

University of Alberta, Canada

Timothy R. Hannigan

University of Alberta, Canada

Vern L. Glaser

University of Alberta, Canada

Madeline Toubiana

University of Alberta, Canada

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Joel Gehman

University of Alberta, Canada

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Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Contributor Biographies

Mhamed Biygautane is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His primary research interests revolve around how the institutional context affects the implementation of public sector reform initiatives such as public–private partnerships, privatization and downsizing public sector organizations, with particular emphasis on the Gulf and Middle Eastern countries.

Isabel Brüggemann is a Research Associate at Cambridge Judge Business School. Her research interests lie in the study of institutions and social change, with a particular focus on social innovation. She received her PhD in organization theory from the University of Cambridge.

Giulia Cappellaro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Her research adopts qualitative methodologies to study dynamics of organizational and policy change in sectors of public interest, employing both ethnographic and historical analysis approaches.

Guillermo Casasnovas is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Esade Business School and holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School. His research is focused on the early moments of new markets and fields, with special emphasis on empirical contexts at the intersection of social, business, and public sectors.

Brett Crawford is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University. His research explores how organizations shape social and institutional meaning over time, specifically relating to the natural environment and stigmatized issues. He earned his PhD from Copenhagen Business School.

M. Tina Dacin is a Professor and the Stephen J. R. Smith Chair of Strategy and Organizational Behavior at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, Canada. Her research interests include custodianship, traditions and place-making, social entrepreneurship, and strategic collaboration. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto.

Claudia Gabbioneta is a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University (UK). She is particularly interested in organizational wrongdoing and the role that professions play in it. She has also investigated other aspects of professions, including status and reputation. She has recently contributed to the RSO volume on the Microfoundations of Institutional Theory.

Joel Gehman is Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management and Alberta School of Business Chair in Free Enterprise at the University of Alberta. His research investigates the strategies and innovations organizations pursue in response to grand challenges and how institutional arrangements shape organizational responses to such concerns. His published research has dealt with topics such as values work, robust action strategies, sustainability journeys, contextual distinctiveness, and technological exaptation, among others. He received his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University.

Vern L. Glaser is an Associate Professor at the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta. His research investigates how organizations strategically change practices and culture. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California (2014).

Mary Ann Glynn is the Joseph F. Cotter Professor of Management and Organization at Boston College. She investigates micro-level cognitive processes (learning and creativity) and macro-level cultural influences (social norms and institutional arrangements) as well as their interaction. She is a Fellow and Past President of the Academy of Management.

Timothy R. Hannigan is an Assistant Professor of Organization Theory and Entrepreneurship at the University of Alberta, School of Business. His research is oriented around the early moments of markets, fields, ecosystems, and organizational wrongdoing. In particular, he focuses on institutional dynamics in contexts characterized by ambiguity; this includes computationally mapping processes and representations of provisional meanings and knowledge. He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Research Policy, Behavioral Science & Policy, and Big Data & Society.

Markus A. Höllerer is a Professor in Organization and Management at UNSW Sydney. He is also affiliated with the Research Institute for Urban Management and Governance at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. His scholarly work has been focused on the study of institutions, meaning, and novel forms of organization and governance. Research interests include, among others, issues of collaborative governance at the interface of the private sector, public administration, and civil society.

Gemma L. Irving is a Lecturer in Strategy at the University of Queensland. She received her PhD in management from the University of Queensland and her research has been published in Organization Studies, Academy of Management Learning and Education, and Management Learning. Her research focuses on organizational space, professional work, and collaboration.

Martin Kornberger received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna in 2002. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh as Chair in Strategy, he worked at the University of Technology Sydney as an Associate Professor in design and management, and as Research Director of the Australian Creative Industry Innovation Centre; at Copenhagen Business School as a Professor for strategy and organization; and at EM Lyon, France. Since 2011, he is also a Research Fellow at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. With a background in the Humanities and an eclectic bookshelf behind him, his research focuses on strategies for and organization of new forms of distributed collective action. Departing from the two main forms of coordinating collective action (the visible hand of the manager [hierarchy] and the invisible hand of the market), the central question that he wants to answer is how new forms of collective action combine both goal directedness and the ability to scale.

Jochem Kroezen is a University Lecturer in International Business at Cambridge Judge Business School. His research focuses on processes of institutional change, with a current focus on the resurgence of craft production. He received his PhD from Erasmus University.

Renate E. Meyer is Chair in Organization Studies at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business and a part-time Professor of Institutional Theory at Copenhagen Business School. She is also a Visiting Fellow at UNSW Sydney, and Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Alberta School of Business. She focusses on meaning structures and has recently studied structural forms of institutional pluralism, institutions as multimodal accomplishments, novel forms of organization, collaborative governance, and collective action mostly in urban contexts. She is the current Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies and Division Chair-Elect of the OMT Division of the Academy of Management.

Evelyn Micelotta is an Associate Professor of Management at Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She conducts research on institutional processes of maintenance and change and cultural dynamics in various settings, including entrepreneurial firms, family businesses, and professional service firms.

Stuart Middleton is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy at the University of Queensland. He received his PhD from the University of Tasmania and his research has been published in the British Journal of Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Organizational Research Methods. His research focuses on management education, institutional theory, and hospital management.

Marc Schneiberg is an organizational and institutional sociologist interested in the rise, contemporary fates, and economic consequences of organizational diversity and alternatives to giant, shareholder value corporations in American capitalism. Schneiberg also writes about institutional theory and methods, and about institutions, their role in regulation and self-regulation, and their relationships with social movements.

W. Richard Scott is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Stanford with appointments in the Graduate School of Business, Graduate School of Education, School of Engineering, and School of Medicine. He is the author of three influential texts, Formal Organizations (1962) with Peter M. Blau; Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open System Perspectives (1981, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2003, 2007), the last edition with Jerry Davis; and Institutions and Organizations (1995, 2001, 2008, 2014).

Christopher W. J. Steele is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and organization at the University of Alberta. He received his PhD from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. His research focuses on the production and consumption of facts, the rise of data analytics, the dynamics of institutions, practices, and identities, and collective intentionality.