. 2012. “Progressive Corporations at Work: The Case of Diversity Programs”. Review of Law and Social Change 36(2):171-213.
Journal Articles
. 1999. “National Employment Systems and Job Autonomy: Why Autonomy is High in the Nordic Countries and Low in the U.S., Canada, and Australia”. Organization Studies 20:257-291.
. 2000. “The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and Railroad Acquisitions, 1825-1922”. American Journal of Sociology 105(2):455-492.
. 2010. “The Misapplication of Mr. Michael Jensen: How Agency Theory Brought Down the Economy and Why it Might Again”. Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis (Research in the Sociology of Organizations) 30B::29-64.
. 1997. “Actors and Institutions: Editors' Introduction”. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist 40(4):392-396.
. 1997. “The Social Invention of Collective Actors: On the Rise of the Corporation”. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist 40(4):431-443.
. 1997. “The Embedded Actor and the Invention of Natural Economic Law: Policy Change and Railroader Response in Early America”. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist 40(4):478-489.
. 2006. “In Search of Identity and Legitimation: Bridging Organizational Culture and Neoinstitutionalism”. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist 49(7):897-907.
. 2006. “Introduction: Institutions in the Making: Identity, Power, and the Emergence of New Organizational Forms”. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist 49(7):889-896.
. 2011. “You Can't Always Get What You Need : Organizational Determinants of Diversity Programs”. American Sociological Review 76:386.
. 1986. “War and Peace: The Evolution of Modern Personnel Administration in U.S. Industry”. American Journal of Sociology 92:350-383.
Excerpted in: Doing Exemplary Research. Edited by Peter Frost and Ralph Stablein. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1992. Response to Comment: 1988 J. Baron, F. Dobbin, and P.D. Jennings. "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day." American Journal of Sociology 93: 1231-1234.
. 1988. “Mission Control?: The Development of Personnel Systems in U.S. Industry”. American Sociological Review 53:497-514.
. 1992. “The Origins of Private Social Insurance: Public Policy and Fringe Benefits in America, 1920-1950”. American Journal of Sociology 97:1416-1450.
. 1993. “The Social Construction of the Great Depression: Industrial Policy During the 1930s in the United States, Britain, and France”. Theory and Society 22:1-56.
. 1993. “Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets”. American Journal of Sociology 99:396-427.
Reprinted: Foundations of Employment Discrimination. JJ. Donohue III. Albandy, NY: Matthew Bender. 2013
Reprinted: Institutional Theory in Organization Studies. Edited by R. Greenwood, K. Sahlin, R. Suddaby, and C. Oliver. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 2012
Reprinted: Pp. 272-300 in Institutional Environments and Organizations. Edited by W.R. Scott and J.W. Meyer, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1994 Reprinted (in Chinese): Pp. 201-227 in The New Institutionalism in Organizational Sociology. Edited by Xueguang Zhou.