Review of Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations, Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby, and Bernard Leca, Eds.

Abstract

Institutions impose constraints on us all. In recent years the institution of the university press has constrained the publication of edited volumes, and the appearance of this particular volume might be seen as evidence against the notion that institutional constraints are real. But this is the exception that proves the rule that edited volumes cannot succeed. Lawrence, Suddaby, and Leca have brought together a set of pathbreaking essays that speak authoritatively to a single issue.