Institutional work : actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations / edited by Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: theorizing and studying institutional work / Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby, Bernard Leca -- Institutional work and the paradox of embedded agency / Julie Battilana, Thomas D’Aunno -- Leadership as institutional work: a bridge to the other side / Matthew S. Kraatz -- Bringing change into the lives of the poor: entrepreneurship outside traditional boundaries / Ignasi Marti, Johanna Mair -- Institutional work as the creative embrace of contradiction / Timothy J. Hargrave, Andrew H. Van de Ven -- Building the iron cage: institutional creation work in the context of competing proto-institutions / Charlene Zietsma, Brent McKnight -- Scandinavian institutionalism - a case of institutional work / Eva Boxenbaum, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen -- Institutional maintenance as narrative acts / Tammar B. Zilber -- Maintaining an institution in a contested organizational field: the work of the AACSB and its constituents / Christine Quinn Trank, Marvin Washington -- Institutional "dirty" work: preserving institutions through strategic decoupling / Paul M. Hirsch, Y. Sekou Bermiss -- Doing which work? A practice approach to institutional pluralism / Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Matthiesen, Andrew H. Van de Ven