"[Schemata are] knowledge structures that represent objects or events and provide default assumptions about their char…"

"What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved fr…"

"By , we mean those organizations that, in the aggregate, constitute a recognized area of institutional life: key supp…"

"Organizations may try to change constantly; but, after a certain point in the structuration of an organizational fiel…"

"Organizations compete not just for resources and customers, but for political power and institutional legitimacy, for…"

"Organizations tend to model themselves after similar organizations in their field that they perceive to be more legit…"

"purportedly represents a distinctive approach to the study of social, economic, and political phenomena; yet it is of…"

"Although there are as many ‘new institutionalisms’ as there are social science disciplines, this book is about just o…"

"The new institutionalism in organization theory and sociology comprises a rejection of rational-actor models, and int…"

"Both the old and new approaches share a scepticism toward rational-actor models of organisation, and each views insti…"