Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change
Julie Battilana,Tiziana Casciaro +1 more
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In this paper, a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as terms of the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and termination of a network.Abstract:
We develop a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as terms of the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and...read more
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TABLE 1 Examples of change initiatives with high, medium and low levels of divergence from the institutional status quo 
TABLE 2 Means, standard deviations of variables, and correlation matrix 
FIGURE 2 Observed Interactive Effect of Egonetwork Constraint and Divergence from Institutional Status Quo on Change Adoption 
FIGURE 1 Predicted Interactive Effects of Network Closure
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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The Social Psychology of Groups
TL;DR: The Social Psychology of Groups as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of family studies, where the authors introduced, defined, and illustrated basic concepts in an effort to explain the simplest of social phenomena, the two-person relationship.
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Institutional change and healthcare organizations: from professional dominance to managed care
TL;DR: From an historical and sociological perspective, integrated care has emerged as part of institutional efforts to break up professional fiefdoms, especially of subspecialists entrenched in hospitals, and to reorganise services around clinically integrated pathways and services for the patients as mentioned in this paper.
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Successful Organizational Change: Integrating the Management Practice and Scholarly Literatures
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the difficulty of creating meaningful, sustainable changes in organizational research and the lack of easily accessible consensus on basic change manageme.... But, relevant organizational research lacks a consensus on how to create meaningful and sustainable changes.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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