This double volume presents a collection of 23 papers on how institutions matter to socio-economic life. The effort was seeded by the 2015 Alberta Institutions Conference, which brought together 108 participants from 14 countries and 51 different institutions. The resulting papers delve deeply into the practical impact an institutional approach enables, as well as how such research has the potential to influence policies relevant to critical institutional changes unfolding in the world today. In Volume 48A, the focus is on the micro foundations of institutional impacts. In Volume 48B, the focus is on the macro consequences of institutional arrangements. Looking across the two volumes, there are multiple theoretical, conceptual, methodological and practical points of convergence and divergence. Overall, the volumes highlight the many ways in which institutional processes and institutional researchers can contribute to our understanding of the micro foundations and macro consequences of institutions and their impacts on a wide variety of globally pressing issues, while also identifying a variety of fruitful directions for knowledge accumulation and development.
How Institutions Matter: from the Micro Foundations of Institutional Impacts ToThe Macro Consequences of Institutional Arrangements - Joel Gehman, Michael Lounsbury and Royston GreenwoodInstitutional Frame Switching: How Institutional Logics Shape Individual Action - Vern L. Glaser, Nathanael J. Fast, Derek J. Harmon and Sandy E. Green, Jr.The Meaning of Economic Democracy: Institutional Logics, Parabiosis, and the Construction of Frames - Stefan Jonsson and Michael LounsburyHow Institutions Get Materialized in Space: “Spatialized Logics” Along Jerusalem’SWestern Wall - Briana Preminger and Gili S. DroriHow Institutional Logics Matter: A Bottom-Up Exploration - Tammar B. ZilberPractice Variation as a Mechanism for Influencing Institutional Complexity: Local Experiments in Funding Social Impact Businesses - Tracy A. Thompson and Jill M. PurdyThe Micro-Foundations of Mattering: Domestic Traditions as Institutionalized Practices in Everyday Living - Christi Lockwood and Mary Ann GlynnLooking Away: Denial and Emotions in Institutional Stability and Change - Giuseppe Delmestri and Elizabeth GoodrickSuccess and Failure in Rigid Environments: How Marginalized Actors Used Institutional Mechanisms to Overcome Barriers to Change in Golf - Karen D. W. Patterson, Michelle Arthur and Marvin WashingtonHow Institutions Matter “In Time”: The Temporal Structures of Practices and Their Effects on Practice Reproduction - Chris Rowell, Robin Gustafsson and Marco ClementeIdeological Call to Arms: Analyzing Institutional Contradictions in Political Party Discourse on Education and Accountability Policy, 1952-2012 - Debbie H. Kim, Jeannette A. Colyvas and Allen K. KimHow Do Institutionalists Matter? Dialogue and Directions from the Closing Plenary - Mary Ann Glynn, Thomas B. Lawrence, Renate E. Meyer, William Ocasio, M. Paola Ometto and Jean-Franc¸Ois Soublière
Joel Gehman, University of Alberta, CanadaMichael Lounsbury, University of Alberta, CanadaRoyston Greenwood, University of Alberta, Canada