The DOI matches its Crossref record; 111 of the 111 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Beyond Constraining and Enabling: Toward New Microfoundations for Institutional Theory
Abstract
In this article I argue that the quest to establish microfoundations for institutional theory is hindered by two assumptions on which it currently rests: that structure simply constrains and enables action and that agency is mostly associated with reflexivity. I unpack these two assumptions and propose alternative microfoundations on which (1) structure not only constrains and enables action but also actively orients it toward some possibilities over others, and (2) the pre-reflective dimension of agency is explicitly theorized. It thus becomes possible to bridge long-standing divides within institutional theory, opening up avenues for further developing its microfoundations.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
DiMaggio, P. J., & Powell, W. W. (1983) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/2095101 · Cited by 38,435
Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
Granovetter, M. (1985) · American Journal of Sociology · doi:10.1086/228311 · Cited by 28,745
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
Meyer, J. W., & Rowan, B. (1977) · American Journal of Sociology · doi:10.1086/226550 · Cited by 28,308
(1984) · Cited by 21,166
Bourdieu, P. (1990) · doi:10.1515/9781503621749 · Cited by 17,271
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.
Warner, M., Bourdieu, P., & Nice, R. (1985) · MLN · doi:10.2307/2905454 · Cited by 14,091
Wallace, A. F. C., & Garfinkel, H. (1968) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/2092245 · Cited by 12,445
Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies
Swidler, A. (1986) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/2095521 · Cited by 8,661
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Lacombe, D., Bourdieu, P., Wacquant, L. J. D., & Wacquant, L. J. D. (1993) · Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie · doi:10.2307/3340841 · Cited by 8,375
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
(1982) · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511809477 · Cited by 8,240
Cited by
HRM institutional entrepreneurship for sustainable business organizations
Ren, S., & Jackson, S. E. (2020) · Human Resource Management Review · doi:10.1016/j.hrmr.2019.100691 · Cited by 175
A configural framework of practice change for B corporations
Sharma, G., Beveridge, '. J., & Haigh, N. (2018) · Journal of Business Venturing · doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2017.12.008 · Cited by 86
Pham, J. M. (2019) · Sociological Forum · doi:10.1111/socf.12489 · Cited by 15
Metadata
- Authors
- Cardinale, I.
- Venue
- Academy of Management Review
- Publisher
- Academy of Management
- Published
- 2018-01
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 132-155
- ISSN
- 0363-7425 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-3807
- OpenAlex
- W2595673796
- Cited by
- 257
- References
- 111
- FWCI
- 38.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Beyond Constraining and Enabling: Toward New Microfoundations for Institutional Theory. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.5465/amr.2015.0020
- The paper
- Cardinale, I. (2018). Beyond Constraining and Enabling: Toward New Microfoundations for Institutional Theory. Academy of Management Review. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2015.0020
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
