Christopher W.J. Steele is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta. Timothy R. Hannigan is an Assistant Professor of Organization Theory and Entrepreneurship at the University of Alberta. Vern L. Glaser is an Associate Professor in the Strategic Management and Organization Department at the University of Alberta. Madeline Toubiana is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta. Joel Gehman is Professor of Strategic Management & Organization and the Alberta School of Business Chair in Free Enterprise at the University of Alberta.

• Chapter 1. Towards an Optometric Institutionalism and an Institutionalist Optometry: Integrating and complicating the micro and macro ‘foundations’ of institutions; Christopher W.J. Steele, Timothy R. Hannigan, Madeline Toubiana, Vern L. Glaser, and Joel Gehman.Section A: Macro-Founding the Local: Exploring the Institutional Contexts of Action Chapter 2. Revisiting the Foundations of Institutional Analysis; John Gehman. Chapter 3. Institutional power and organizational space: How space constrains micro-level action in the emergency department; Stuart Middleton, Gemma Irving, and April Wright. Chapter 4. How cities think: Strategy’s impact beyond implementation; Renate E. Meyer, Martin Kornberger, and  Markus A. Höllerer Chapter 5. Punishment and institutions: A macro-foundations perspective; Brett Crawford, and M. Tina DacinChapter 6. In the land of sand and oil: How the macrofoundations of a tribal society shape the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs); Mhamed Biygautane, Evelyn Micelotta, Claudia Gabbioneta, and Giulia Cappallaro  Section B: Localizing the Macro-Foundational: Investigating Recursivity Chapter 7. Fighting ‘factory fiction’: The evolution of a marginalized institutional logic in UK trade book publishing; Isabel Brüggemann, Jochem Kroezen, and Paul Tracey Chapter 8. New structuralism and field emergence: The co-constitution of meanings and actors in the early moments of impact investing; Timothy R. Hannigan.Section C: Reflections and Future Directions Chapter 9. Rediscovering The Macrofoundations of Institutions: Reflections On the Language of Institutional Theory; Mary Ann Glynn Chapter 10. Rediscovering the power of institutions: The macro-foundations of institutional analysis; Markus A. Höllerer, Marc Schneiberg, Patricia H. Thornton, Charlene Zietsma, and Milo S. Wang. Chapter 11. Turtles all the way down – and up: Macro institutions; W. Richard Scott.