Thornton, Patricia
individual record
Professor
Positions:
- Professor, Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
education and training
- Ph.D. in Sociology, Stanford University - (Stanford, California, United States)
- M.A. in Sociology, Stanford University - (Stanford, California, United States)
- B.A. in Sociology, San Jose State University - (San José, California, United States)
selected publications
Academic Articles12
- Thornton, P. H., & Klyver, K. (2018). Who is more likely to walk the talk? The symbolic management of entrepreneurial intentions by gender and work status. Innovation. 21(1), 102-127.
- Durand, R., & Thornton, P. H. (2018). Categorizing Institutional Logics, Institutionalizing Categories: A Review of Two Literatures. Academy of Management Annals. 12(2), 631-658.
- 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.
- Thornton, P. H., Ribeiro-Soriano, D., & Urbano, D. (2011). Socio-cultural factors and entrepreneurial activity. International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship. 29(2), 105-118.
- Thornton, P. H. (2010). Chapter 30: Touchstones: The Stanford school of organization theories, 1970-2000. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 28, 429-437.
Books4
- Thornton, P. H., Ocasio, W., & Lounsbury, M. (2012). The Institutional Logics Perspective A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process. OUP Oxford.
- Thornton, P. H., Jones, C., & Kury, K. (2005). Institutional Logics and Institutional Change in Organizations: Transformation in Accounting, Architecture, and Publishing. Emerald (MCB UP ).
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- Thornton, P. H. (2004). Markets from Culture Institutional Logics and Organizational Decisions in Higher Education Publishing. Stanford University Press.
Chapters6
- Thornton, P. H. (2015). The Institutional LogicsPerspective. Van Ree, K. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier.
- Thornton, P. H. (2015). Culture and Institutional Logics. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. (pp. 550-556). Elsevier.
- Thornton, P. H. (2010). Touchstones: The Stanford School of Organization Theories, 1970-2000. Schoonhoven, C. B., & Dobbin, F. (Eds.), Stanford’s Organization Theory Renaissance, 1970-2000. Emerald Publishing Group.
- Thornton, P. H. (2009). The Value of the Classics. The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations.
- Thornton, P. H. (2009). The Value of the Classics. The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations. Oxford University Press.
Conference Papers1
- Ocasio, W., & Thornton, P. H. (2006). Corporate hierarchies in markets: The effects of structure and strategy on organizational survival.
awards and honors
recent teaching activities
- MGMT376 Entrepreneurial Perspectives Instructor
- MGMT489 Sptp: Entrepreneurship Pract Instructor
- MGMT689 Sptp: Institutional Analysis Instructor
- SOCI376 Entrepreneurial Perspectives Instructor
- SOCI377 Entreprenrl Thought Leader Sem Instructor
Email
phthornton@tamu.edu
First Name
Patricia
Last Name
Thornton
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Sociology; 4351 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4351
USA