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. Can Small Variations Accumulate into Big Changes; Brian Pentland, Peng Liu, Waldemar Kremser, and Thorvald Haerem Chapter 2. Putting Things in Place: Institutional Objects and Institutional Logics; Roger Friedland and Diane-Laure Arjaliès Chapter 3. You’re grounded: towards a theory of enactive legitimation, materiality, and practice; Davide Nicolini, Juliane Reineke, and Aneeq Ismail Chapter 4. Field-level evaluation practices and practice experimentation: social impact bonds and market logic encroachment in the field of social integration; Henri Schildt, Farah Kodeih, and Hani Tarabichi Chapter 5. Mystery Driven Institutionalism: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises as A Book of Practices Leading Nowhere; Jose Bento da Silva, and Paolo Quattrone Chapter 6. Cultural Encounters: A Practice-Driven Institutional Approach to The Study of Organizational Culture; Milo Wang, and Michael Lounsbury Chapter 7. The missing link: community of practice as a bridge between institutional entrepreneurs and frontline practitioners in institutionalizing a divergent practice; Arthur Gautier, Anne Claire Pache, Imran Chowdhury, and Marion Ligonie