Table of Contents

Preface - W Richard Scott and Sóren Christensen
Introduction - W Richard Scott
Institutional Theory and Organizations
PART ONE: ACCOUNTING FOR INSTITUTIONS
The New Institutionalism and Rational Choice Theory - Peter Abell
Cognitive Sources of Socially Constructed Competitive Groups - Theresa K Lant and Joel A C Baum
Examples from the Manhattan Hotel Industry
Localism and Globalization in Institutional Analysis - Mark C Suchman
The Emergence of Contractual Norms in Venture Finance
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATION TO CONFLICTING AND SHIFTING INSTITUTIONAL AND TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENTS
Origin and Transformation of Organizations - Sóren Christensen and Jan Molin
Institutional Analysis of the Danish Red Cross
Civilization, Art, and Accounting - Jan Mouritsen and Peter Sk[ae]b[ae]k
The Royal Danish Theater - An Enterprise Straddling Two Institutions
The Incorporation of Multiple Institutional Models - Finn Borum and Ann Westenholz
Organizational Field Multiplicity and the Role of Actors
PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON FIRMS AND FIELDS
The Competence View of the Firm - Christian Knudsen
What Can Modern Economists Learn from Philip Selznick′s Sociological Theory of Leadership?
Using Institutional Theory to Understand For-Profit Sectors - Stephen J Mezias
The Case of Financial Reporting Standards
PART FOUR: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON INDUSTRIES
Accounting for Acquisition Waves - Patricia H Thornton
Evidence from the US College Publishing Industry
Coupling the Technical and Institutional Faces of Janus in Network Industries - Raghu Garud and Arun Kumaraswamy
Institutional Interpretations and Explanations of Differences in American and Danish Approaches to Innovation - Peter Karn[o with a line through]e
The Origins of Economic Principles - Frank Dobbin
Railway Entrepreneurs and Public Policy in 19th-Century America
Conclusion - W Richard Scott and Sóren Christensen
Crafting a Wider Lens

About the Author

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).