Institutional theory is a wide ranging body of work that has had, and continues to have, a huge impact in political science, sociology and organization studies. However, there remains a gap for a collection that addresses organizational institutionalism - by far the most used perspective within organization and management theory. From the authors of the SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism , this major work takes stock of institutional theory by reviewing its foundations, current status and emerging new directions with a selection of the seminal articles that have appeared over the last 60 years.