On Practice and Institution

Michael Lounsbury is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Alberta School of Business. Michael's research focuses on the relationship between organizational and institutional change, entrepreneurial dynamics, and the emergence of new industries and practices.Deborah A. Anderson is a doctoral candidate at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Deborah's research focuses on the interaction of knowledge and authority both within and across firms, particularly in the context of crisis, rapid technological change, and innovation.Paul Spee is Associate Professor in Strategy at the University of Queensland Business School. Paul's research focuses on social practice theory, advocating for an alternative theorization of institutions, strategy and routines.

• Chapter 1. Towards A Religious Institutionalism: Ontologies, Teleologies and The Godding of Institution; Roger Friedland Chapter 2. Forming alliances; Theodore Schatzki Chapter 3. Searching for Values in Practice-Driven Institutionalism: Practice Theory, Institutional Logics, And Values Work; Joel Gehman Chapter 4. Zones of Meaning, Leitideen, Institutional Logics, Practices: Family Gathering and an Esteemed Guest; Renate Meyer, Dennis Jancsary, and Markus A. Höllerer Chapter 5. Restless practices as drivers of purposive institutional change; David Seidl, Tanja Ohlson, and Richard Whittington Chapter 6.‘They’re Alive!’: Exploring The Intentionality of Institutional Logics, Their Variable Orientation Towards Jurisdictional Expansion, And The General Significance of Their Internal Dynamics; Christopher SteeleChapter 7. Practice driven institutionalism: a path towards a fruitful borrowing; Tammar Zilber