Works
- The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields, American Sociological Review 48(2), from p. 147, 1983
- Neither market nor hierarchy: network forms of organization, Research in Organizational Behavior 12, 295 to 336 (JAI Press), 1990
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Neither Market nor Hierarchy, the founding sociological statement of the network form.
Ideas
Network forms of organization. Networks are a form distinct from markets and hierarchies, not a hybrid of them, coordinated by reciprocity and relationship. Caveat: Conceptual synthesis; Podolny and Page (1998) later called for attention to the constraints and dysfunctions of network forms.
Institutional isomorphism. Co-author with DiMaggio. Caveat: Theory.