TY - CHAP AB - Abstract The core goal of the “micro-foundational” agenda appears to be less an institutionalism founded in the micro, or reduced to the micro, and more some form of integrative institutionalism: that is, an institutionalism that does justice to the perpetual, co-constitutive interplay of local activities (the micro) and trans-local patterns (the macro). In this chapter, thus, the authors argue for a conscious, explicit embrace of integrative institutionalism; and of the broader agenda that this terminology opens up. Based on this overdue rewording the authors highlight additional problems and possibilities – providing a constructive reformulation and elaboration of the “micro-foundational” agenda as it currently stands. VL - 65B SN - 978-1-78769-127-8, 978-1-78769-128-5/0733-558X DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B027 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B027 AU - Steele Christopher W. J. AU - Toubiana Madeline AU - Greenwood Royston ED - Patrick Haack ED - Jost Sieweke ED - Lauri Wessel PY - 2019 Y1 - 2019/01/01 TI - Why Worry? Celebrating and Reformulating “Integrative Institutionalism” T2 - Microfoundations of Institutions T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 353 EP - 369 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -