Patricia H. Thornton is Adjunct Professor and affiliate of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and Associate Professor visiting at Stanford University, Department of Sociology. She holds a Ph.D. (1993) in Sociology from Stanford University. Her research and teaching interests are in organization theory, economic sociology, and entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on developing and testing theories on the impact of culture, organization structure, and institutional change on entrepreneurial decisions. She is published in the American Journal of Sociology, the Annual Review of Sociology, the Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. Her book Markets from Culture (2004) chronicles her cumulative research program on institutional logics and organization decisions.