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- Professor
- Contact Info
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Thornton, Patricia Professor
Positions
- Professor, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
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Overview
Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Thornton, P. H.
(2021).
Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Social Change: Redefining Organizations with Multilevel Relational Infrastructures. Administrative Science Quarterly.
66(4), NP36-NP39.
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Thornton, P. H., & Klyver, K.
(2019).
Who is more likely to walk the talk? The symbolic management of entrepreneurial intentions by gender and work status. 21(1), 102-127.
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Durand, R., & Thornton, P. H.
(2018).
CATEGORIZING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS, INSTITUTIONALIZING CATEGORIES: A REVIEW OF TWO LITERATURES. The Academy of Management Annals.
12(2), 631-658.
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Jourdan, J., Durand, R., & Thornton, P. H.
(2017).
The Price of Admission: Organizational Deference as Strategic Behavior. American Journal of Sociology.
123(1), 232-275.
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Thornton, P. H., Ribeiro-Soriano, D., & Urbano, D.
(2011).
Socio-cultural factors and entrepreneurial activity. 29(2), 105-118.
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Thornton, P. H
(2010).
Chapter 30: Touchstones: The Stanford school of organization theories, 1970-2000. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
28, 429-437.
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Thornton, P. H
(2002).
THE RISE OF THE CORPORATION IN A CRAFT INDUSTRY: CONFLICT AND CONFORMITY IN INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS. Academy of Management Journal.
45(1), 81-101.
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Thornton, P. H.
(2001).
Personal Versus Market Logics of Control: A Historically Contingent Theory of the Risk of Acquisition. Organization science.
12(3), 294-311.
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Thornton, P. H., & Ocasio, W.
(1999).
Institutional Logics and the Historical Contingency of Power in Organizations: Executive Succession in the Higher Education Publishing Industry, 1958 1990. American Journal of Sociology.
105(3), 801-843.
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Thornton, P. H.
(1999).
THE SOCIOLOGY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Annual Review of Sociology.
25(1), 19-46.
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Thornton, P. H., & Tuma, N. B
(1995).
THE PROBLEM OF BOUNDARIES IN CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH ON ORGANIZATIONS. Academy of Management Proceedings.
1995(1), 276-280.
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Rappaport, M., Goldman, H., Thornton, P., Stegner, B., Moltzen, S., Hall, K., Gurevitz, H., & Attkisson, C. C
(1987).
A method for comparing two systems of acute 24-hour psychiatric care. Hospital & community psychiatry.
38(10), 1091-1095.
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Thornton, P. H., Goldman, H., Stegner, B., Rappaport, M., Sorensen, J., & Attkisson, C. C
Assessing the Costs and Outcomes Together: Cost Effectiveness of Two Systems of Acute Psychiatric Care. Evaluation and Program Planning.
13(3), 231-241.
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Thornton, P. H.
(2021).
Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Social Change: Redefining Organizations with Multilevel Relational Infrastructures. Administrative Science Quarterly.
66(4), NP36-NP39.
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book
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Thornton, P. H., Ocasio, W., & Lounsbury, M
(2012).
The Institutional Logics Perspective A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process. OUP Oxford.
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Thornton, P. H., Jones, C., & Kury, K.
(2005).
Institutional Logics and Institutional Change in Organizations: Transformation in Accounting, Architecture, and Publishing. Ed. 23.
Emerald.
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Jones, C., & Thornton, P. H.
(2005).
Transformation in Cultural Industries. Ed. 23.
Emerald.
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Thornton, P. H
(2004).
Markets from Culture Institutional Logics and Organizational Decisions in Higher Education Publishing. Stanford University Press.
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Thornton, P. H., Ocasio, W., & Lounsbury, M
(2012).
The Institutional Logics Perspective A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process. OUP Oxford.
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chapter
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Pache, A., & Thornton, P. H.
(2021).
HYBRIDITY AND INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
ORGANIZATIONAL HYBRIDITY.
(pp. 29-52).
Emerald.
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Hoellerer, M. A., Schneiberg, M., Thornton, P. H., Zietsma, C., & Wang, M. S.
(2021).
REDISCOVERING THE POWER OF INSTITUTIONS: THE MACROFOUNDATIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
MACROFOUNDATIONS.
(pp. 221-234).
Emerald.
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Thornton, P. H.
(2015).
Culture and Institutional Logics. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
(pp. 550-556).
Elsevier.
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Thornton, P. H.
(2015).
The Institutional LogicsPerspective. Van Ree, K. (Eds.),
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Elsevier.
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Thornton, P. H.
(2010).
Touchstones: The Stanford School of Organization Theories, 1970-2000. Schoonhoven, C. B., & Dobbin, F. (Eds.),
Stanfords Organization Theory Renaissance, 1970-2000.
Emerald Publishing Group.
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Thornton, P. H.
(2009).
The Value of the Classics. The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies.
(pp. 20-36).
Oxford University Press (OUP).
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Thornton, P. H.
(2009).
The Value of the Classics. The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations.
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Thornton, P. H., Ocasio, W., & Lounsbury, M.
The Institutional Logics Perspective. Scott, R., & Kosslyn, S. (Eds.),
Emerging Trends in the Social Sciences.
Wiley.
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Pache, A., & Thornton, P. H.
(2021).
HYBRIDITY AND INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
ORGANIZATIONAL HYBRIDITY.
(pp. 29-52).
Emerald.
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conference paper
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Ocasio, W., & Thornton, P. H
(2006).
Corporate hierarchies in markets: The effects of structure and strategy on organizational survival
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Ocasio, W., & Thornton, P. H
(2006).
Corporate hierarchies in markets: The effects of structure and strategy on organizational survival
Teaching
teaching activities
- MGMT376 Entrepreneurial Perspectives Instructor
- MGMT478 Social Entrepreneurship Instructor
- MGMT489 Sptp: Entrepreneurship Pract Instructor
- MGMT689 Sptp: Institutional Analysis Instructor
- SOCI376 Entrepreneurial Perspectives Instructor
- SOCI377 Entreprenrl Thought Leader Sem Instructor
- SOCI450 Social Entrepreneurship Instructor
- SOCI489 Sptp: Entrepreneurshp Practice Instructor
- SOCI607 Sem Org:institutional Analysis Instructor
- SOCI691 Research Instructor
Background
education and training
- B.A. in Sociology, San Jose State University - (San José, California, United States)
- M.A. in Sociology, Stanford University - (Stanford, California, United States)
- Ph.D. in Sociology, Stanford University - (Stanford, California, United States)
awards and honors
- George R. Terry Book Award, conferred by Academy of Management - (Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States), 2013
- Organization and Management Theory Division/Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Award, conferred by Academy of Management - (Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States), 2012
- Organizations, Occupations and Work Section/W Richard Scott Award, conferred by American Sociological Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States), 2000
Contact
first name
- Patricia
has last name
- Thornton
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Sociology
4351 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4351
USA
Other
- phthornton@tamu.edu