Despite the centrality of meaning to institutionalization, little attention has been paid to how meanings evolve and amplify to become institutionalized cultural conventions. We develop an interactional framing perspective to explain the microprocesses and mechanisms by which this occurs. We...

This paper contributes to a developing literature on the role of framing in organizational settings and in protracted environmental disputes in particular. The paper identifies four frame types (risk, conflict management, power, and views of nature frames) that can be used to understand how...

In this paper I explore two connections between mediation and framing. First, mediators use framing as a technique to foster resolution by creating different social accounts of the conflict. I review several framing tasks include framing: the process and disputants' expectations, fairness and...