This paper asks how the structuring of categories and their social location can impact organisational theory in general and institutional theory in particular. Following Bourdieu, we divide categories into two classes, namely those within the field, and those within the habitus (i.e. within the...

This study considers how organization-level and field-level meaning systems affect when firms adopt administrative innovations. We use a sample of over 1200 manufacturing sites to test hypotheses regarding the timing of adoption of Manufacturing Best Practice programmes. The results indicate...

Given that recent research has found that the meanings managers attribute to novel practices are crucial to understanding their adoption, we ask how institutional processes shape the way managers understand novel practices, and how that understanding affects adoption behaviour. In particular, we...