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The authors acknowledge financial support from the Danish Research Council (DFF-1327-00030). Eva Boxenbaum also acknowledges support from the French National Research Agency (ANR-14-CE29-0008). We wish to thank SCANCOR for providing an excellent working environment during our sabbaticals. Dennis Jancsary also thanks the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University for its support.

This chapter traces the evolution of the core theoretical constructs of isomorphism, decoupling and diffusion in organizational institutionalism. We first review the original theoretical formulations of these constructs and then examine their evolution in empirical research conducted over the past four decades. We point to unexamined and challenging aspects of this conceptual evolution, including the causal relationships among these core theoretical constructs. The chapter ends with a discussion of important theoretical frontiers to address in future research. society 36(6): 547-571.

This article examines transposition as a source of innovation. Transposition is the act of applying a practice from one social context to another.We trace how and why three individuals transposed the American practice of diversity management into Denmark in 2002. The analysis outlines how they came up with the idea to transpose diversity management to Denmark and what motivated them to do so. Based on our analysis, we propose an institutionalist account of innovation in which transposition across fields characterized by different dominant institutional logics plays a prominent role.We identify a number of facilitating conditions for such transposition to occur and we explain how it can subsequently lead to innovation.

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