This double volume presents a collection of 23 papers on how institutions matter to socio-economic life. The effort was seeded by the 2015 Alberta Institutions Conference, which brought together 108 participants from 14 countries and 51 different institutions.

Preserving a Settlement Despite Ongoing Challenges: the Case of Native Indian Gaming - Chang Lu and Trish Reay Understanding “Failed” Markets: Conflicting Logics and Dissonance In Attempts to Price the Priceless Child - Patrick Vermeulen, Shaz Ansari and Michael Lounsbury Institutional Hybridity In Public Sector Reform: Replacement, Blending, or Layering of Administrative Paradigms - Tobias Polzer, Renate E. Meyer, Markus A. Höllerer and Johann Seiwald Institutional Maintenance Through Business Collective Action: the Alcohol Industry’S Engagement with the Issue of Alcohol-Related Harm - Lærke Højgaard Christiansen and Jochem J. Kroezen Achieving Minimal Consensus for New Industries: Bringing Isomorphism Back In - Stephen J. Mezias and Florian Schloderer State Mediation In Market Emergence: Socially Responsible Investing In China - Shipeng Yan and Fabrizio Ferraro Intra-Professional Status, Maintenance Failure, and the Reformation of the Scottish Civil Justice System - Ilay H. Ozturk, John M. Amis and Royston Greenwood The Performative Puzzle: How Institutions Matter In Marginalizing and Reconstituting Identities - Raghu Garud and Thinley Tharchen Institutional Constraints on the Pursuit of Racial Justice - Melissa E. Wooten “Walk the Line”: How Institutional Influences Constrain Elites - Christof Brandtner, Patricia Bromley and Megan Tompkins-Stange Organization Theory and the Dilemmas of a Post-Corporate Economy - Gerald F. Davis