Book Chapters

Thomas B. Lawrence, Graham Dover and Bryan Gallagher (In press) Managing social innovation. In Mark Dodgson, David Gann and Nelson Phillips (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Graham Dover and Thomas B. Lawrence. (2010) Technology, institutions and entropy: Understanding the critical and creative role of maintenance work. In N. Phillips, D. Griffiths, and G. Sewell (Eds.) Technology and organization: Essays in honour of Joan Woodward. Research in the Sociology of Organizations: 259-364. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group.

Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca (2009)  Introduction: Theorizing and studying institutional work.In Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca (Eds.) Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations: 1-27. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Thomas B. Lawrence and Masoud Shadnam (2008) Institutional theory. In Wolfgang Donsbach (Ed.) The international encyclopedia of communication: 2288-2293. Oxford: Blackwell.

Lawrence, Thomas B. (2008) Power, institutions and organizations. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, K. Sahlin, & R. Suddaby (Eds.), Sage handbook of organizational institutionalism: 170-197. London: Sage.

Walter R. Nord, Thomas B. Lawrence, Cynthia Hardy and Stewart R. Clegg (2006) Introduction. In S. R. Clegg, C. Hardy, T. B. Lawrence, & W. R. Nord (Eds.) Handbook of organization studies, 2nd Edition. London: Sage.

Thomas B. Lawrence and Roy Suddaby (2006) Institutions and institutional work. In S. R. Clegg, C. Hardy, T. B. Lawrence, & W. R. Nord (Eds.) Handbook of organization studies, 2nd Edition: 215-254. London: Sage.

Vivien Corwin, Thomas B. Lawrence and Peter Frost (2003) Principles of successful part-time professional work. In Harvard Business Review on Managing Your Career: 121-140. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Business Press.

Thomas B. Lawrence, Nelson Phillips and Cynthia Hardy (1998). A relational theory of organizational collaboration. In S. Clegg, E. Ibarra & L. Bueno (Eds.) Global management: Universal theories and local realities: 246-264. London: Sage.

Cynthia Hardy, Nelson Phillips and Thomas Lawrence (1998) Distinguishing trust and power in interorganizational relations: Forms and façades of trust. In C. Lane & R. Bachmann (Eds.) Trust within and between organizations: 64-87. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B. Lawrence and Nelson Phillips (1998) Talk and action: Conversations, narrative and action in interorganizational collaboration. In D. Grant, T. Keenoy & C. Oswick (Eds.) Discourse and organization: 65-83. London: Sage.