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Review title: Major Works Collected with a Valuable Introductory Chapter
Product review: Powell and DiMaggio have collected a variety of major works in the sociology of organizations, all of which use some variant of neo-institutional analysis. Their introductory chapter helps to make clear why these works are "new" institutionalism, and how they do not take identical views. The importance of culture and symbolism is given much greater emphasis in all of the papers/chapters than will be found in more economic analyses of organizations. Like all collected works, variability in style and intended audiences (or targets of criticism) requires more effort from the reader. The time is well worth the effort. It is not possible to fully appreciate institutional analysis in politics, economics, sociology, or education without an understanding and awareness of the papers collected in this volume.
