Introduction

This paper is the introducion from the book Th e New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. As the authors say: “We present neither an overview nor a critique of the new institutionalism in organization theory, nor do we offer a research agenda. What we shall do in the following sections, is locate the ‘neoinstitutional’ organization theory presented here, first, among the several contemporary institutionalisms, especially those of economics and political science, and, second, within the disciplines of sociology and organization studies, both with reference to the ‘old’ institutionalism and to independent but convergent developments in sociological theory. We close this introduction with a discussion of several key open questions in institutional analysis”.