The Palgrave Handbook of Emotions and Values in Organizational Institutionalism

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This Handbook marks a turning point for organizational institutionalism. Providing both wayfinding conceptual essays and detailed studies of values and emotions, this collection will be required reading for institutional scholars wishing to advance their understanding of these key issues.” —Thomas B. Lawrence, Professor of Strategy, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK In the face of escalating political crises and institutional upheavals, leaders are encountering unprecedented challenges and uncertainty daily. Understanding how emotions and values shape societies is now more crucial than ever. Emotions play a significant role in influencing engagement and resistance towards established norms and values, while values govern emotional reactions, mobilize actions, and strengthen institutional work and social connections. This open-access handbook offers a comprehensive interplay between emotions and values within organizational institutionalism, highlighting their essential roles in shaping organizational dynamics and evolution of organizational life. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the handbook examines how emotions and values emerges within institutions, interact, and operate as significant drivers of action and practice across various organizational contexts.   Gry Espedal is a Professor at VID Specialized University, Norway. She has published extensively on topics such as values work, institutional logics, and the interplay between narratives, values, practices, and emotions.  Trish Ruebottom is an Associate Professor at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business, Canada. She focuses on social innovation, stigma, moral emotions, and their impacts on entrepreneurship, especially concerning marginalized industries.  Marta Struminska-Kutra is a Professor at both VID Specialized University and Kozminski University, Poland. She investigates social and sustainable innovation, governance of sustainable transitions, and organizational learning in public administration.  Jose Bento da Silva is an Associate Professor at Warwick Business School, UK. He examines how concepts like ambiguity and temporality enhance our understanding of social and institutional order through historical and ethnographic studies.  Douglas Creed is Professor Emeritus at the University of Rhode Island, USA, and a fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He researches identity and embodiment within institutional processes and the dynamics of contested institutional change.

In the face of escalating political crises and institutional upheavals, leaders are encountering unprecedented challenges and uncertainty daily. Understanding how emotions and values shape societies is now more crucial than ever. Emotions play a significant role in influencing engagement and resistance towards established norms and values, while values govern emotional reactions, mobilize actions, and strengthen institutional work and social connections. This open-access handbook offers a comprehensive interplay between emotions and values within organizational institutionalism, highlighting their essential roles in shaping organizational dynamics and evolution of organizational life. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the handbook examines how emotions and values emerges within institutions, interact, and operate as significant drivers of action and practice across various organizational contexts.

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“Theoretical and empirical attention to emotions and values represents a profoundly important development for scholars interested in the intersection of institutions and organizations. Although emotions and values are the energizing forces behind core institutional processes, systematic examination of those forces has only recently emerged as a significant endeavor. This Handbook marks a turning point for organizational institutionalism. Providing both wayfinding conceptual essays and detailed studies of values and emotions, this collection will be required reading for institutional scholars wishing to advance their understanding of these key issues.” (Thomas B. Lawrence, Professor of Strategy, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK)

“This Handbook invites readers to take a closer look at how emotions and values interact and shape the inner workings of institutions. Moving beyond traditional institutional theory, the volume calls for a more human-centered approach—one that recognizes how feelings and personal convictions drive our commitments and influence organizational behavior. By unpacking issues like reflexivity, ambiguity, and even the complex, “darker” sides of emotional and value entanglement, the Handbook sheds new light on the moral and emotional foundations of organizational life. It’s a timely resource for anyone interested in understanding how institutions are evolving in a rapidly changing world—whether you’re a researcher or a practitioner.” (Jane E. Dutton, Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan, US)

“This Handbook offers a timely and exciting contribution to the social sciences. It tackles the important topic of how institutionalized values and emotional experiences interact with one another to shape social structures. This intellectually intriguing topic matters for how we organize our societies in a context of AI, growing inequalities, green transition, and political instability. I am truly excited about this Handbook. Its anchoring in organizational institutionalism makes it theoretically and ontologically coherent, and the chapters are of high academic quality and well connected to one another. The editors and contributors include both internationally leading and upcoming scholars, which is a powerful constellation. Moreover, the wide scope of empirical studies is inspiring and shows the practical significance of the topic. At the end, methodological chapters guide scholars in pursuing institutionalist research at the intersection of values and emotions. Altogether, the Handbook successfully opens a new line of academic inquiry, one that advances our theorizing and carries potential to shape how we train leaders of tomorrow and restructure organizations of the future.” (Eva Boxenbaum, Professor of Organization and Management Theory, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

“This is a book the field needs. A top-tier collection of seasoned and new contributors explore the mutual constitution of values and emotions in institutions, processes that can be messy, ambiguous and fraught with vulnerability. The book’s non-obvious insight is that this entanglement is the very engine of institutional stability and change—from the “dark side” of shame and hate to the creative power of reflexivity. The authors provide new lenses for seeing how we collectively construct—or erode—the good in our organizations, demanding we attend to the full, complex human experience. On these pages, institutional theory feels alive and urgent.” (Arne Carlsen, Professor at the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway)

“In an era of accelerating polarization, inequality, climate crises, and the erosion of institutions, humanity needs to center on values to find our way forward. This Handbook reveals emotions, moral aspirations and collective values as central forces in the transformation of the institutions that shape our lives. Featuring accomplished scholars and diverse contexts, this book presents insights that are indispensable for scholars, leaders, and change-makers seeking to navigate turbulent times with greater understanding of the emotional and moral landscapes that underpin institutional engagement.” (Dr. Charlene Zietsma, Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the Erb Institute, University of Michigan, US)

“Covering a rich array of phenomena (the dissolution of values, the erosion of democracy, polarization, and AI), organizational dynamics (leadership, social innovation, purpose-driven organizing, decision making), and emotions (shame, hate, melancholia and compassion), the handbook offers fascinating explorations of the institutionalization of emotions and values, as well as the emotional and value-laden fabrics that underly institutions. The handbook reminds us of the best and the worst we humans are capable of, and the intellectual purchase in thinking about this moment of uncertainty and vulnerability through an expanded institutional lens that also accounts for people's experiences.” (Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University, Israel, and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

“This Handbook offers a compelling reorientation of institutional theory by exploring how emotions and values actively shape institutional processes and how institutions, in turn, shape emotional and moral commitments. Its chapters move from conceptual integration to focused analyses, empirical depth, and methodological innovation, showing that institutional logics, leadership, reflexivity, ambiguity, embodiment, and even the darker sides of organizing become clearer when emotions and values are examined together. The result is a timely and integrative contribution that brings a more human-centered understanding of institutional life to the fore.” (Charlotte M. Karam, Professor, Ian Telfer Professorship in Inclusive Human Resource Systems, Telfer School of Management, Ottawa)

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