Tammar B. Zilber

TL;DR: This paper present an analysis of institutionalization as an interplay between three interrelated yet separate components, actors, actions, and meanings, and examine the role of organization members as carriers of institutions and their agency in infusing actions with meanings through interpretation.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the evolution of institutional work as a scholarly conversation within organization studies, focusing in particular on where they fit into the current scholarly conversation and how they move us in important new directions.

TL;DR: The authors explored the use of institutionalization as translation in high-tech discourse in Israel around the millennium as a case study, and found that the meanings attached to high tech were derived from broad c...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role and usage of stories in the discursive dynamics of institutional entrepreneurship and find that actors who represented different groups in the field were engaged in constructing a shared story of the crisis that reflected and further strengthened the established institutional order, while the same actors also each telling a counter-story of indictment, blaming other groups for the crisis and calling for changes in the institutional order.