Patricia H. THORNTON
Senior Research Fellow
Strategy and Business Policy
Biography
Patricia H. Thornton is Senior Research Fellow, Strategy and Business Policy and the Institute for Organizations and Society, HEC, Paris and the Grand Challenge Faculty and Professor of Sociology and Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M University. Her research interests focus on how institutions and organizations affect attention and strategy. She is first author with William Ocasio and Michael Lounsbury of The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process which received the George R. Terry award from the Academy of Management for outstanding contribution to management knowledge. She is currently interested in institutional analysis of three domains, innovation and entrepreneurship, inclusiveness and diversity, and solutions to grand challenges. She Received her Ph.D. at Stanford University. You may find further information about her at http://patriciathornton.com
Scientific articles
Administrative Science Quarterly, March 2025, vol. 70, pp NP1-NP4,
Academy of Management Annals, June 2018, vol. 12, n° 2, pp 631-658, (in coll. with R. DURAND)
American Journal of Sociology, July 2017, vol. 123, n° 1, pp 232-275, (in coll. with J. JOURDAN, R. DURAND)
International Small Business Journal, 2011, vol. 29, n° 2, pp 105-118, (in coll. with Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano, David Urbano)
Academy of Management Journal, 2002, vol. 45, n° 1, pp 81-101,
Organization Science, May-June 2001, vol. 12, n° 3, pp 294-311,
Annual Review of Sociology, 1999, vol. 25, n° 1, pp 19-46,
American Journal of Sociology, November 1999, vol. 105, n° 3, pp 801-843, (in coll. with William Ocasio)
Evaluation and Program Planning, 1990, vol. 13, n° 3, pp 231-241, (in coll. with Howard H. Goldman, Bruce L. Stegner, Maurice Rappaport, James E. Sorensen, C.Clifford Attkisson)
Books
De Gruyter (in coll. with O. SORENSON )
Oxford University Press (in coll. with W. OCASIO, M. LOUNSBURY )
Emerald Group Publishing Limited (in coll. with C. JONES )
Stanford University Press
Chapters in edited books
Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises. Research In The Sociology Of Organizations, Marya L. Besharov and Bjoern C. Mitzinneck, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2 , 29-52
The Sage Handbook Of Organizational Institutionalism, 2Nd Edition, Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, Renate E. Meyer, SAGE Publications, 4
International Encyclopedia Of The Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences, 2Nd Edition, James D. Wright, Elsevier, 550-556
Emerging Trends In The Social And Behavioral Sciences, Robert A. Scott, Marlis C. Buchmann, John Wiley & Sons US
Research In The Sociology Of Organizations, M. Lounsbry, E. Boxenbaum, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Institutional Logics in Action , 165-201
Working papers
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2013
Scientific articles
Administrative Science Quarterly, March 2025, vol. 70, pp NP1-NP4,
Academy of Management Annals, June 2018, vol. 12, n° 2, pp 631-658, (in coll. with R. DURAND)
American Journal of Sociology, July 2017, vol. 123, n° 1, pp 232-275, (in coll. with J. JOURDAN, R. DURAND)
International Small Business Journal, 2011, vol. 29, n° 2, pp 105-118, (in coll. with Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano, David Urbano)
Books
De Gruyter (in coll. with O. SORENSON )
Oxford University Press (in coll. with W. OCASIO, M. LOUNSBURY )
Emerald Group Publishing Limited (in coll. with C. JONES )
Stanford University Press
Chapters in edited books
Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises. Research In The Sociology Of Organizations, Marya L. Besharov and Bjoern C. Mitzinneck, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2 , 29-52
The Sage Handbook Of Organizational Institutionalism, 2Nd Edition, Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, Renate E. Meyer, SAGE Publications, 4
International Encyclopedia Of The Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences, 2Nd Edition, James D. Wright, Elsevier, 550-556
Emerging Trends In The Social And Behavioral Sciences, Robert A. Scott, Marlis C. Buchmann, John Wiley & Sons US
Working papers
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2013
Education
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Ph.D. Sociology, Stanford University - USA
Academic appointments
Academic Responsibilities at HEC
- 2021- Senior Research Fellow, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris
- 2019-2020 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris
Scientific Activities
Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation
- Innovation School Task Force Member
- American Sociological Association Sections: Organizations, Occupations, Work, Economic Sociology, Culture
- Academy of Management Sections: Organization Management Theory, Entrepreneurship
- European Group on Organization Studies
- Member, Advisory Council, Center for New Venture Entrepreneurship
- Member, Council for Entrepreneurial Development, Research Triangle
- Co-founder and board of directors, Interim Inc. Residential Treatment Services, authored plan to raise seed capital
- Co-founder, Monterey County Respite Child Care Center
- Monterey County Social Services Commission, supervisorial appointment
- Co-founder and board of directors, Campus Community Improvement Association