Introduction
Early Institutionalists
Institutional Theory and Organizations
Constructing an Analytic Framework I
Three Pillars of Institutions
Constructing an Analytic Framework II
Content, Agency, Carriers and Levels
Institutional Construction, Maintenance and Diffusion
Institutional Processes Affecting Societal Systems, Organizational
Fields, and Organizational Populations
Institutional Processes Affecting Organizational Structure and
Performance
Institutional Change
Looking Back, Looking Forward
W. Richard (Dick) Scott received his PhD from the University of
Chicago and is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Sociology with courtesy appointments in the Graduate School of
Business, Graduate School of Education, and School of Medicine at
Stanford University. He has spent his entire professional career at
Stanford, serving as chair of the Sociology Department (1972–1975),
as director of the Training Program on Organizations and Mental
Health (1972–1989), and as director of the Stanford Center for
Organizations Research (1988–1996).
Scott is an organizational sociologist who has concentrated his
work on the study of professional organizations, including
educational, engineering, medical, research, social welfare, and
nonprofit advocacy organizations. During the past three decades, he
has concentrated his writing and research on the relation between
organizations and their institutional environments. He is the
author or editor of about a dozen books and more than 200 articles
and book chapters.
He was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine (1975),
served as editor of the Annual Review of Sociology (1987–1991), and
as president of the Sociological Research Association (2006–2007).
Scott was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the
Management and Organization Theory Division of the Academy of
Management in 1988, the Distinguished Educator Award from the same
Division in 2013, and of the Richard D. Irwin Award for
Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management from the
Academy of Management in 1996. In 2000, the Section on
Organization, Occupations and Work of the American Sociological
Association created the W. Richard Scott Award to annually
recognize an outstanding article-length contribution to the field.
He has received honorary doctorates from the Copenhagen School of
Business (2000), the Helsinki School of Economics and Business
(2001), and Aarhus University in Denmark (2010).
"The research inputs to his analysis communicate the high
intellectual energy and excitement that pervades contemporary
research on institutions and organizations."
*Contemporary Sociology*
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