Institutional Work: Current Research, New Directions and Overlooked Issues 6 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm

The study of institutional work has emerged as a dynamic research domain within organization studies. In this essay, we situate the papers published in the Special Issue. We first review the evolution...

Institutional Work as Logics Shift: The Case of Intel's Transformation to Platform Leader 6 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm

In this article, we explore some of the forms of institutional work that organizations perform as they participate externally in the processes that drive change in the institutional logic that charact...

Negotiating as Institutional Work: The Case of Labour Standards and International Framework Agreements 6 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm

Although institutional work has recently attracted considerable attention from organization research, there is a surprising neglect of inter-organizational negotiations as a form of institutional work...

From Novel Practice to Consecrated Exemplar: Unity Temple as a Case of Institutional Evangelizing 6 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm

Institutional theorists focus on practices that spread because they conform with and build on established cultural assumptions and resources. Novel practices, however, not only fail to conform to, but...

Institutions and Maintenance: The Repair Work of Italian Professions 6 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm

This paper contributes to extending institutional theory by theorizing institutional maintenance as a process of repair and empirically examining repair work in a professional setting. Our in-depth, l...

Bringing Technology and Meaning into Institutional Work: Making News at an Italian Business Newspaper 6 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm

In this article we investigate the role of technology and meaning in the institutional work of newsmakers. By analysing ethnographic data from an Italian business newspaper undertaking a project integ...

The Institutional Work of Oppression and Resistance: Learning fromthe Holocaust 6 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm

In recent years there has been an outburst of studies aiming to advance our understanding of how actors do work to create, maintain and disrupt institutions. Drawing on work on the Holocaust, a largel...

Book Review: Building the Responsible Enterprise: Where Vision and Values Add Value 6 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm

Book Review: Labor, Economy, and Society 6 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm

Identity Work and Legitimacy 5 Jul 2013 | 03:49 pm

We analyse the relationships between identity work and internal legitimacy. Based on an in-depth case study of prisoners in Helsinki Prison, we focus on how their identity work affirmed and contested ...