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Thomas Lawrence

University of Oxford - Said Business School

Park End Street

Oxford, OX1 1HP

Great Britain

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Institutions and Institutional Work

Thomas B. Lawrence and Roy Suddaby (2006) Institutions and Institutional work. In Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B. Lawrence & Walter R. Nord (Eds.) Sage Handbook of Organization Studies, 2nd Edition: 215-254. London: Sage.
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2021
Thomas Lawrence and Roy Suddaby
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Peter B Gustavson School of Business
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institutional work

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Lawrence and Phillips 2019 - Constructing Organizational Life - Chapter 2 The Social-Symbolic Work Perspective

Lawrence, T. B., & Phillips, N. 2019. Constructing organizational life: How social-symbolic work shapes selves, organizations, and institutions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (pp. 14-51).
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Jun 2023
Thomas Lawrence
University of Oxford - Said Business School
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social-symbolic work, institutional work, organization work, self work, identity work, boundary work, technology work, strategy work

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A Social-symbolic Work Perspective on Strategy as Practice: the Objects of Strategy Work

Tyson Rallens, Thomas B. Lawrence and Nelson Phillips (In press) In Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl and Eero Vaara (Editors), Cambridge handbook of strategy as practice (3rd edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2023
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Aug 2023
Tyson Rallens, Thomas Lawrence and Nelson Phillips
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Oxford - Said Business School and Imperial College Business School
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social-symbolic work, strategy-as-practice, social-symbolic objects

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Foreword: Thinking About Materiality and Institutions

(Eds.) Materiality in institutions: Spaces, embodiment and technology in management and organization: v-xi. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 10 Apr 2019
Thomas Lawrence
University of Oxford - Said Business School
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materiality, institutions, homelessness

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Constructing Organizational Life

Number of pages: 400 Posted: 20 Apr 2026
Thomas Lawrence and Nelson Phillips
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
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social-symbolic work, institutional work, boundary work, organization work, self work, identity work, emotion work, career work, technology work, strategy work, category work, practice work, social construction, agency, organization theory, sociology