Microfoundations of institutions

The notion of microfoundations has received growing interest in neo-institutional theory (NIT) along with an increasing interest in microfoundational research in disciplines such as strategic management and organizational economics. However, despite reference to the same term, there are decisive differences in how microfoundations have been addressed across different disciplines. The aim of this double volume is to explore in more depth what the microfoundations of institutions are and what it takes to actually develop sound microfoundations. To this end, this double volume sets off by exploring the recent well-spring of micro-level research in NIT (i.e., research on the individual, practice and group level). While intimately related, micro-level research and microfoundations are not necessarily the same thing. Hence, the double volume seeks to bring to the fore different perspectives in micro-level research in order to tease out what these perspectives imply for building microfoundations, where they converge and where they diverge.

• Section 1 - Prologue 1: What are Micro-Foundations, Why and How to Study Them?
• Pamela S. Tolbert and Lynne G. Zucker Section 2 - Introduction 2: Introduction
• Patrick Haack, Jost Sieweke, and Lauri Wessel Section 3 - Cognitive Perspective on Microfoundations 3: Towards a multi-level theory of institutional contestation: Exploring category legitimation across domains of institutional action
• Alex Bitektine and Robert Nason 4: When do market intermediaries sanction categorical deviation? The role of expertise, identity and competition
• Romain Boulongne, Arnaud Cudennec, and Rodolphe Durand 5: 'The HR generalist is dead': A phenomenological perspective on decoupling
• Julia Brandl, Jochen Dreher, and Anna Schneider 6: Why do individuals perceive and respond to the same institutional demands differently? On the cognitive structural underpinnings of institutional complexity
• Magdalena Cholakova and Davide Ravasi 7: The Generativity of Collective Identity: Identity Movements as Mechanisms for New Institutions
• Mary Ann Glynn and Benjamin D. Innis 8: Embodied and reflexive agency in institutional fields: An integrative neo-institutional perspective on institutional change
• Jan Goldenstein and Peter Walgenbach 9: How do institutions take root at the individual level?
• Osnat Hazan and Tammer B. Zilber 10: Sensegiving and sensemaking of highly disruptive issues: Animal rights experienced through PETA YouTube videos
• Yanfei Hu and Claus Rerup 11: Connecting the tree to the rain forest: Examining the microfoundations of institutions with cultural consensus theory
• Josh Keller 12: Specifying the 'what' and separating the 'how': Doings, sayings, codes, and artifacts as the building blocks of institutions
• Omar Lizardo 13: Identity within the Microfoundations of Institutions: A Historical Review
• Anna E. Roberts 14: Microfoundations of Institutional Change in the Career Structure of UK Elite Law Firms
• Thomas J. Roulet, Lionel Paolella, Claudia Gabbionnetta and Daniel Muzio 15: Bases of Conformity and Institutional Theory: Understanding Organizational Decision-Making
• Pamela S. Tolbert and Tiffany Darabi

The notion of microfoundations has received growing interest in neo-institutional theory (NIT) along with an increasing interest in microfoundational research in disciplines such as strategic management and organizational economics. However, despite reference to the same term, there are decisive differences in how microfoundations have been addressed across different disciplines. The aim of this double volume is to explore in more depth what the microfoundations of institutions are and what it takes to actually develop sound microfoundations. To this end, this double volume sets off by exploring the recent well-spring of micro-level research in NIT (i.e., research on the individual, practice and group level). While intimately related, micro-level research and microfoundations are not necessarily the same thing. Hence, the double volume seeks to bring to the fore different perspectives in micro-level research in order to tease out what these perspectives imply for building microfoundations, where they converge and where they diverge.

• 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 Ruling and Elke Schussler 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 DeJordy Chapter 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 Spee Chapter 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 Fohim Chapter 10. situating frames and institutional Logics: the social situation as a key institutional Microfoundation
• Santi Furnari Chapter 11. institutionalizing Place: Materiality and Meaning in Boston's north end
• Candace Jones, Ju Young Lee and Taehyun Lee Chapter 12. Hybridity and Power in the Microfoundations of Professional work
• Namrata Malhotra and Trish Reay Chapter 13. outsourcing Public services: a Multilevel Model of Leadership-driven Gradual institutional change of Public services Provision
• Riku Ruotsalainen Chapter 14. creating the British academic Health science centres: understanding the Microfoundations of the translation of organizational forms
• Panita Surachaikulwattana and Nelson Phillips Section 6 Reflections on Microfoundations Chapter 15. conceptual Metaphors in Microfoundations of institutional theory
• Eva Boxenbaum Chapter 16. Bringing society Back in again: the importance of social interaction in an inhabited institutionalism
• Tim Hallett and Amelia Hawbaker Chapter 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 Colyvas Chapter 18. why worry? celebrating and reformulating "integrative institutionalism"
• Christopher W. J. Steele, Madeline Toubiana and Royston Greenwood Chapter 19. towards a theory of Micro-institutional Processes: forgotten roots, Links to social-psychological research, and new ideas
• Lynne G. Zucker and Oliver Schilke Section 7 Epilogues Chapter 20. Microfoundations for institutional theory?
• Teppo Felin and Nicolai Foss Chapter 21. the social construction of the "Micro-social"
• John W. Meyer Chapter 22. institutions on the Ground
• Walter W. Powell Index