TY - JOUR AU - Wilcox, Tracy AB - Copyright © eContent Management Pty Ltd. Journal of Management & Organization (2011) 17: 522–533. PROLOGUE Stability and change∗ JENNIFER BARTLETT JACO LOK QUT Business School, Brisbane, QLD, Australian School of Business, University of Australia New South Wales, NSW, Australia STEPHANE TYWONIAK CRAIG PRICHARD Curtin Graduate School of Business, Curtin Faculty of Business Massey University, University, Perth, WA, Australia Aotearoa, New Zealand PETER CEBON TRACY WILCOX University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia his special feature section of Journal of in 2008 at the University of New South Wales, TManagement & Organization (Volume 17/4 – and again in 2009 at Queensland University of July 2011) sets out to widen understanding of the Technology. At the time of the second meeting, processes of stability and change in today’s organi- our suggestion to the editors of the Journal of zations, with a particular emphasis on the contribu- Management & Organization to put forward a call tion of institutional approaches to organizational for papers around these questions of stability and studies. Institutional perspectives on organization change, using an institutional perspective, was theory assume that rational, economic calculations, met warmly. Interestingly, the response to that TI - Prologue: Stability and change* JF - Journal of Management & Organization DO - 10.1017/S1833367200001425 DA - 2011-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/cambridge-university-press/prologue-stability-and-change-BSKzMwQUI5 SP - 522 EP - 533 VL - 17 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -