Microfoundations of Institutions

Patrick Haack is Professor of Strategy atHEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne. His current research focuses on socialjudgment formation, practice adoption, and the application of experiments andformal modeling approaches to the study of institutionalization and legitimation.Jost Sieweke is Associate Professor ofManagement & Organization at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His researchfocuses on human errors and legitimacy. He is also working in the applicationof natural experiments in management research.Lauri Wessel is Associate Professor ofManagement & Organization at the University of Bremen, Germany. Hisresearch spawns the domains of organization theory and information systemsresearch by applying sociological theories such as institutional theory to understanddigital technology.

• Section 4 Communicative Perspective on Microfoundations Chapter 1. arguments and institutions; Derek Harmon Chapter 2. rituals of critique and institutional Maintenance at the united nations climate change summits; Gazi Islam, Charles-Clemens Rüling and Elke Schüßler Chapter 3. framing fairness: Microfoundations of the Moral Legitimacy of alberta's oil sands; Lianne M. Lefsrud and Eero Vaara Chapter 4. from cruise director to rabbi: authoring the agentic self through conventions of narrative necessity; Jaco Lok, W. E. Douglas Creed and Rich DeJordyChapter 5. Melting icebergs vs. spectacularization: storytelling of conflicting institutional demands in wildlife documentaries; Birthe Soppe and Raissa Pershina Chapter 6. Microfoundations and recursive analysis: a Mixed-methods framework for Language-based research, computational Methods, and theory development; Hovig Tchalian Section 5 Behavioral Perspective on  Microfoundations Chapter 7. Practicing capitals across fields: extending Bourdieu to study inter-field dynamics; Mattia Anesa, Konstantinos Chalkias, Paula Jarzabkowski and Andreas Paul SpeeChapter 8. "navigation techniques": How ordinary Participants orient themselves in scrambled institutions; Nina Eliasoph, Jade Y. Lo and Vern L. Glaser Chapter 9. institutional entrepreneurs' skills:  a Multi-dimensional concept; Emamdeen FohimChapter 10. situating frames and institutional Logics: the social situation as a key institutional Microfoundation; Santi FurnariChapter 11. institutionalizing Place: Materiality and Meaning in Boston's north end; Candace Jones, Ju Young Lee and Taehyun LeeChapter 12. Hybridity and Power in the Microfoundations of Professional work; Namrata Malhotra and Trish ReayChapter 13. outsourcing Public services: a Multilevel Model of Leadership-driven Gradual institutional change of Public services Provision; Riku RuotsalainenChapter 14. creating the British academic Health science centres: understanding the Microfoundations of the translation of organizational forms; Panita Surachaikulwattana and Nelson PhillipsSection 6 Reflections on Microfoundations Chapter 15. conceptual Metaphors in Microfoundations of institutional theory; Eva BoxenbaumChapter 16. Bringing society Back in again: the importance of social interaction in an inhabited institutionalism; Tim Hallett and Amelia HawbakerChapter 17. what do we talk about when we talk about Microfoundations? conceptualizations of actor and Multi-level accounts of the Micro in institutional Processes; Hokyu Hwang and Jeannette ColyvasChapter 18. why worry? celebrating and reformulating "integrative institutionalism"; Christopher W. J. Steele, Madeline Toubiana and Royston GreenwoodChapter 19. towards a theory of Micro-institutional  Processes: forgotten roots, Links to social-psychological  research, and new ideas; Lynne G. Zucker and Oliver SchilkeSection 7 EpiloguesChapter 20. Microfoundations for institutional theory?; Teppo Felin and Nicolai FossChapter 21. the social construction of the "Micro-social"; John W. MeyerChapter 22. institutions on the Ground; Walter W. PowellIndex