Walter W. Powell

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore why organizations tend to be increasingly and inevitably homogeneous in their forms and practices, and suggest that organizational fields are structured into an organizational field by powerful forces that lead them to become similar.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.

TL;DR: It is argued that the spillovers that result from proprietary alliances are a function of the institutional commitments and practices of members of the network, and the relative accessibility of knowledge transferred through contractual linkages determines whether innovation benefits accrue broadly to membership in a coherent network component or narrowly to centrality.

TL;DR: In this article, a recursive analysis of network and institutional evolution is offered to account for the decentralized structure of the commercial field of the life sciences, and four alternative logics of attachment are tested to explain the structure and dynamics of interorganizational collaboration in biotechnology using multiple novel methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the knowledge economy as production and services based on knowledge intensive activities that contribute to an accelerated pace of technical and scientific advance, as well as rapid obsolescence, and assess the distributional consequences of a knowledge-based economy with respect to growing inequality in wages and high-quality jobs.