Institutions and Organizations

Trish Reay is Professor in Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta School of Business in Edmonton, Canada. She also holds a Visiting Distinguished Professor appointment at Warwick Business School. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief at Organization Studies. Her research interests include qualitative research methods, organizational and institutional change, and professions and professional identity. She studies these topics in the context of health care and family firms. Published articles from these research streams appear in Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Work and Occupations, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Family Business Review. Tammar B. Zilber is Associate Professor of Organization Theory at the Jerusalem School of Business, The Hebrew University, Israel. Her research focuses on the dynamics of meaning and action in institutional processes. Focusing on the micro-foundations of institutions, and using qualitative methods, she examines the role of discursive acts (like narrating) in constructing institutional realities; the institutional work involved in creating and maintaining fields, given field multiplicity; spatial and emotional mediations of institutional dynamics; the interrelations between institutional logics and institutional work; and the translation of institutions over time and across social spheres.Ann Langley is Professor of Strategic Management at HEC Montréal, Canada and holder of the Canada research chair in strategic management in pluralistic settings. Her research focuses on strategic change, inter-professional collaboration and the practice of strategy in complex organizations. She is particularly interested in process-oriented research and methodology and has published a number of papers on that topic. In 2013, she was co-guest editor with Clive Smallman, Haridimos Tsoukas and Andrew Van de Ven of a Special Research Forum of Academy of Management Journal Process Studies of Change in Organizations and Management. She is also co-editor of the journal Strategic Organization.Haridimos Tsoukas (www.htsoukas.com) holds the Columbia Ship Management Chair in Strategic Management at the Department of Business and Public Administration, University of Cyprus, and is a Distinguished Research Environment Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of the International Symposium on Process Organization Studies (with Ann Langley). His research is informed by process philosophy, phenomenology, and neo-Aristotelian perspectives on reason and the social. His interests include: knowledge-based perspectives on organizations and management; organizational becoming; practical reason in management and policy studies; and meta-theoretical issues in organizational issues in organizational and management research.

• 1: Trish Reay, Tammar B. Zilber, Ann Langley, and Hardimos Tsoukas: Introduction: Institutions and Organizations: A Process View 2: Steve Barley: Working Institutions 3: Renate Meyer: A Processual View on Institutions: A Note from a Phenomenological Institutional Perspective 4: Tim Hallett: On Doing Institutional Analysis without Institutional Theory 5: Francesca Polletta: Stories of (and instead of) Process 6: Ted Schatzki: Processes, Life, and the Practice Plenum 7: Amalya Oliver: Bringing Process into Structure: Combining Network Analyses with Process Lenses to Explore Field-Level Evolution and Changes 8: Micki Eisenman, Michal Frenkel, and Varda Wasserman: The Interpretation of Design-Based-Cues: A Processual Approach 9: Mark de Rond and Tim Hallett: The Long Walk to Aleppo: Institutional Myths, Inhabited Institutions, and Ideals in the Real World 10: Steve Maguire and Cynthia Hardy: The Discourse of Risk and Processes of Institutional Change: The Case of Green Chemistry 11: Terry McNulty: Making and Regulating Business Judgement: Judicial Practice, Orders and Logics 12: Davide Nicolini and Pedro Monteiro: Systematic Heterogeneity in the Adaptation Process of Management Innovations. Insights from the Italian Public Sector 13: Matthew Jones, Alan Blackwell, Karl Prince, Sallyanne Meakins, Alexander Simpson and Alain Vuylsteke: Data as Process: From Objective Resource to Contingent Performance