Institutional Construction of Organizations

During the past three decades organization studies have witnessed a succession of theoretical perspectives - contingency theory resource dependency and population ecology - that focus on one or other aspect of organizations. Only institutional theory highlights the importance of the wider social and cultural environment as the `ground in which organizations are rooted. This book brings together original work from two different research traditions - continental Europe and the United States - to shed light on the study of organizations. This includes empirical observations longitudinal analyses market-based organizational forms and the concepts of agency and strategy.