Management and Organizational Studies

Organizational behavior and human resource management research examines how institutions shape the rules, norms, and logics that govern what organizations do and how people within them understand their roles. Scholars in this area study how organizations change—or resist change—when competing institutional pressures collide, and how actors engage in "sensemaking" and identity work to navigate those tensions. A central question is how institutional entrepreneurs manage to reshape taken-for-granted rules from within systems designed to perpetuate them. Active frontiers include understanding how professional identities fracture under market pressures, and how organizational identity itself becomes a resource that actors strategically deploy during periods of disruption.

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Keywords

Institutional TheoryOrganizational ChangeInstitutional EntrepreneurshipSensemakingIdentity WorkInstitutional Logics