Walter W Powell

Biographic Data

ID108278
NAMEWalter W Powell
GIVEN NAMESWalter W
FAMILY NAMEPowell
SIGNATUREPOWELL W W
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS68
TOTAL CITATIONS6618
AUTHOR COUNT66
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX9

  • San Francisco Bay Area: A Left Coast Metropolis Grapples with Technocracy and Inequality

    Krystal Laryea, Yi Zhao et al.ARTICLEGlobal Perspectives2022

    How do civic organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area straddle the paradox of challenging entrenched inequalities in an ostensibly progressive region that has been transformed by tech-driven wealth? Local nonprofits face the tension of maintaining access to elite resources while building connections to distribute those resources and navigate divides between the haves and have-nots. We draw on original data collected over the course of two deca…

  • Capturing the Civic Lives of Cities: An Organizational, Place-Based Perspective on Civil Society in Global Cities

    Christof Brandtner, Walter W PowellARTICLEGlobal Perspectives2022

    Introduction to Global Perspectives special collection: The Civic Life of Cities around the World In a wired world, how do social interactions among organizations and people continue to define civil society? Our co-produced approach to studying civil societies through a place-based, organizational lens provides fresh answers to perennial questions about voice, accountability, and embeddedness. The six articles in this collection on the civic life…

  • Networks, Organizations, Institutions: An Interview with Walter W. Powell, Stanford University

    H K Anheier, Walter W PowellARTICLEGlobal Perspectives2021

    In this interview, Walter W. Powell and Helmut K. Anheier review the evolution of organizational sociology and institutionalism over the last thirty years, including the formation of new organizational forms such as network organizations. They also touch upon nonprofit and civil society research, and discuss the state of sociology and the social sciences more generally

  • Living Just in Time: Reflections on Arne L. Kalleberg, Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies

    Open AccessWalter W PowellARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2021Cited by: 1References: 2

  • The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, Third Edition

    Walter W Powell, Patricia BromleyBOOKNonprofit Sector2020

    The nonprofit sector has changed in fundamental ways in recent decades. As the sector has grown in scope and size, both domestically and internationally, the boundaries between for-profit, governmental, and charitable organizations have become intertwined. Nonprofits are increasingly challenged on their roles in mitigating or exacerbating inequality. And debates flare over the role of voluntary organizations in democratic and autocratic societies…

  • Serve or Conserve: Mission, Strategy, and Multi-Level Nonprofit Change During the Great Recession

    Open AccessAaron Horvath, Christof Brandtner et al.ARTICLEVoluntas Revista Internacional de…2018Cited by: 4References: 27

    Change is frequently afoot in the nonprofit sector, both in the wider institutional environment in which nonprofits operate and within the organizations themselves. Environmental transformations—funding sources, supply and demand for collective goods, and administrative norms—create the circumstances in which organizations operate. Internally, change involves the alteration of goals, practices, and personnel. To explore how multiple aspects of ch…

  • Networks and Institutions

    Walter W Powell, Achim ObergCHAPTERSage Handbook of Sociology of…2017

  • Opening the Black Box: The Microfoundations of Institutions

    Walter W Powell, Claus RerupCHAPTERSage Handbook of Sociology of…2017

  • William Clark's World

    Walter W Powell, Richard SteinbergBOOKWilliam Clark's World2017

    William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through Clark's life and career, this book explores how the West entered the American imagination. While he never called himself a writer or an artist, Clark nonetheless drew maps, produced books, drafted reports…

  • Nonprofit Mission: Constancy, Responsiveness, or Deflection?

    Debra Minkoff, Debra C Minkoff et al.CHAPTERNonprofit Sector2017

  • The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles

    Yuko Aoyama, Walter W Powell et al.ARTICLEThe AAG Review of Books2017

    This book forum reports an outcome of the authors-meet-the-critics session organized for the 2016 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, which took place coincidentally but appropriately, in San Francisco

  • Organizations as Sites and Drivers of Social Action

    Open AccessWalter W Powell, Christof BrandtnerCHAPTERHandbook of Contemporary…2016

  • Boundaries and New Organization Forms

    Open AccessWalter W Powell, Birthe SoppeCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • New Institutionalism in the Analysis of Complex Organizations

    Open AccessWalter W Powell, Patricia BromleyCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

    John F Padgett, Walter W PowellBOOKThe Emergence of Organizations…2012

  • Emergence of Organizations and Markets

    John Frederick Padgett, Walter W PowellBOOKThe emergence of organizations…2012

  • The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

    Open AccessJohn Frederick Padgett, Walter W PowellBOOKThe emergence of organizations…2012

    The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, this book develops a theory about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coev…

  • From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk: Decoupling in the Contemporary World

    Patricia Bromley, Walter W PowellARTICLEAcademy of Management Annals2012

    The pervasive spread of rationalizing trends in society, such as the growing influence of managerial sciences and increasing emphases on accountability and transparency, has created significant changes in organizations’ external environments. As a result, there is growing pressure on organizations to align their policies and practices, and to conform to pressures in an expanding array of domains, from protecting the natural world to promoting emp…

  • The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields (translated by G. Yudin)

    Open AccessP Dimaggio, Walter W PowellARTICLEJournal of Economic Sociology2010Cited by: 1

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  • Networks of Innovators

    Walter W Powell, Stine GrodalCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of innovation2009

    The goal of this article is to assess the state of scholarly research on the role of networks in the innovation process. It begins with a review of the factors that have triggered the increased salience of networks. It then turns to a discussion of the analytical leverage provided by the tools of network analysis. It next reviews a number of empirical studies of the contribution of networks to the innovative output of firms. It takes up the issue…

  • Das „stahlharte Gehäuse“ neu betrachtet: Institutionelle Isomorphie und kollektive Rationalität in organisationalen Feldern1

    P Dimaggio, Paul J Dimaggio et al.CHAPTERNeo-Institutionalismus in der…2009

    Was macht Organisationen so ähnlich? Wir behaupten, dass nicht mehr der marktförmige Wettbewerb der Motor von Rationalisierung und Bürokratisierung ist, sondern der Staat und die Professionen. Sobald ein Set von Organisationen als ein Feld entsteht, kommt es zu einem Paradox: Rationale Akteure gestalten durch ihre Versuche, die Organisationen zu wandeln, diese zunehmend ähnlich. Wir beschreiben drei Prozesse der Isomorphie – Zwang, Mimese und nor…

  • The Rationalization of Charity: The Influences of Professionalism in the Nonprofit Sector

    Open AccessHokyu Hwang, Walter W PowellARTICLEAdministrative Science Quarterly2009

    This paper analyzes how professional values and practices influence the character of nonprofit organizations, with data from a random sample of 501 (c)(3) operating charities in the San Francisco Bay Area collected between 2003 and 2004. Expanded professionalism in the nonprofit world involves not only paid, full-time careers and credentialed expertise but also the integration of professional ideals into the everyday world of charitable work. We …

  • Microfoundations of Institutional Theory

    Walter W Powell, Jeannette A ColyvasCHAPTERThe SAGE Handbook of Organizational…2008

  • The Nonprofit sector: A research handbook

    Walter W PowellARTICLEChoice Reviews Online2007

    The second edition of The Nonprofit Sector provides a novel, comprehensive, cross-disciplinary perspective on nonprofit organizations and their role and function in society. This new, updated edition keeps pace with industry trends and advances as well as with the changing interests and needs of students, practitioners, and researchers. As before, every chapter has been written to stand on its own, providing sufficient background for the reader t…

  • The Frontiers of Intellectual Property: Expanded Protection versus New Models of Open Science

    Open AccessDiana Rhoten, Walter W PowellARTICLEAnnual Review of Law and Social…2007Cited by: 9References: 25

    The growing salience of intellectual property (IP) rights has reconfigured U.S. science, shifting it from the formerly separate realms of university and commercial science to an increasingly interconnected field of public and proprietary science. We assess both the magnitude and consequences of these developments, first describing the primary tools of IP and the changing nature of their influence on science, and then examining the effects of IP o…