Recent Publications

Some of the recent publications of CMA Centre Fellows and Scholars include:

Director: Thomas Lawrence (www.sfu.ca/~tblawren)

Articles in Refereed Journals

Masoud Shadnam and Thomas B. Lawrence (In press) Understanding widespread corruption in organizations: An institutional theory of moral collapse. Business Ethics Quarterly.

Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca (2011) Institutional work: Refocusing institutional studies of organization. Journal of Management Inquiry, 20(1): 52 -58.

Dover, G., & Lawrence, T. B. (2010) A gap year for institutional theory: Integrating institutional work and participatory action research. Journal of Management Inquiry. 19(4): 305-316.

Ian McCarthy, Thomas B. Lawrence, Brian Wixted and Brian Gordon (2010) A multidimensional conceptualization of environmental velocity. Academy of Management Review, 35(4), 604-626.

Zietsma, C., & Lawrence, T. B. (2010) Institutional work in the transformation of an organizational field: The interplay of boundary work and practice work. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55(2): 189-221.

Thomas B. Lawrence and Sandra L. Robinson (2007) Ain’t misbehavin: Workplace deviance as organizational resistance. Journal of Management, 33(3): 378-394.

Sally Maitlis and Thomas B. Lawrence (2007) Triggers and enablers of sensegiving in organizations. Academy of Management Journal, 50(1): 57–84.

Eric A. Morse, Sally W. Fowler and Thomas B. Lawrence. (2007) The impact of virtual embeddedness on new venture survival: Overcoming the liabilities of newness. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 31(2): 139-159.

Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B. Lawrence and Nelson Phillips (2006) Swimming with sharks: Creating strategic change through multi-sector collaboration. International Journal of Strategic Change Management, 1(1/2): 96-112.

Thomas B. Lawrence, Bruno Dyck, Sally Maitlis and Michael K. Mauws (2006) The underlying structure of continuous change. MIT Sloan Management Review, 47(4): 59-66.

Nelson Phillips, Thomas B. Lawrence and Cynthia Hardy (2006) Discussing "Discourse and institutions": A reply to Lok and Wilmott. Academy of Management Review, 31(2): 480-483.

Books

Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca (Eds.) (2009) Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B. Lawrence and Walter R. Nord (Eds.) (2006) Handbook of organization studies, 2^nd Edition. London: Sage.

Chapters in Books

Graham Dover and Thomas B. Lawrence, T. B. (2010). Technology, institutions and entropy: Understanding the critical and creative role of maintenance work. In N. Phillips, D. Griffiths, and G. Sewell (Eds.) Technology and organization: Essays in honour of Joan Woodward. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca (2009) Introduction. Theorizing and studying institutional work. In Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca (Eds.) Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Thomas B. Lawrence (2008) Power, institutions and organizations. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, R. Suddaby & K. Sahlin-Andersson (Eds.), Handbook of organizational institutionalism. London: Sage Publications.

Thomas B. Lawrence and Masoud Shadnam (2008) Institutional theory. In Wolfgang Donsbach (Ed.) The international encyclopedia of communication (Volume V): 2288-2293. Oxford: Blackwell.

Walter R. Nord, Thomas B. Lawrence, Cynthia Hardy and Stewart Clegg (2006) Introduction. In S. R. Clegg, C. Hardy, T. B. Lawrence, & W. R. Nord (Eds.) Handbook of organization studies, 2^nd Edition. London: Sage.

Thomas B. Lawrence and Roy Suddaby (2006) Institutions and institutional work. In S. R. Clegg, C. Hardy, T. B. Lawrence, & W. R. Nord (Eds.) Handbook of organization studies, 2^nd Edition: 215-254. London: Sage.

CMA Centre Fellow: Stephenie Bertels

Articles in Refereed Journals

Robinson, M., A. Kleffner, and S. Bertels (forthcoming), “Signaling Sustainability Leadership: Empirical Evidence of the Value of DJSI Membership”, Journal of Business Ethics.

Herremans, I., Herschovis, S. and Bertels, S. (2009) “Leaders and Laggards: The Influence of Competing Logics on Corporate Environmental Action”, Journal of Business Ethics, 89(3): 449-472.

Graham R. and Bertels, S. (2008) “Achieving sustainable value: Sustainability Portfolio Assessment”. Greener Management International, 54: 57-67.

Bertels, S. and J. Peloza (2008) “Running to Stand Still: Managing CSR Reputation in an Era of Rising Expectations”. Corporate Reputation Review 11(1): 56-72.

Bertels, S. and H. Vredenburg (2004) “Broadening the notion of governance from the organization to the domain”, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 15 (Autumn 2004): 33-47.

Reports, Book Chapters

Howard-Grenville, J. and S. Bertels (2011) ‘Bringing the Environment into Organizational Culture’ in Bansal, P. and A. Hoffman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook on Business and the Environment, Oxford University Press.

Bertels, S., L. Papania and D. Papania (2010) Embedding Sustainability in Organizational Culture: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge, Network for Business Sustainability.

Hoffman, A. and Bertels S. (2010) ‘Who is Part of the Environmental Movement? Assessing Network Linkages between NGOs and Corporations’ In Lyon, T. (ed.) Good Cop Bad Cop: Environmental NGOs and their Strategies Toward Business, Washington DC: Resources for the Future Press, Chapter 3.

Graham R. and Bertels, S. (2009) “Achieving sustainable value: Sustainability Portfolio Assessment” In Galea, C. ed., Consulting for Business Sustainability, Chapter 11.
Bertels, S. and H. Vredenburg (2005) “Broadening the notion of governance from the organization to the domain”, In Demirag, I., ed., Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Governance: Global Perspectives, Greenleaf Publishing UK.

In Progress

Bertels, S., L. Papania and D. Papania (working paper) “Embedding sustainability: A practice perspective”

Papania, L. and S. Bertels (working paper) “Individuals, not roles: A language based view of innovation in high technology ventures”

Bertels, S. and T. Lawrence (working paper) "Institutions and Ambiguity: Aboriginal Education in a Metropolitan School District"

Bertels, S., A. Hoffman and R. Dejordy (working paper) "Structure and Role Heterogeneity in Organizational Fields: Evolving Board Interlocks in the Environmental Movement"