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'Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony', American Journal of Sociology, 83, pp. 340-63.
W. Richard Scott
- pp 493-516
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The article was published on 2016-12-05. It has received 992 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ceremony.read more
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The Social Context of Corporate Social Responsibility: Enriching Research With Multiple Perspectives and Multiple Levels
TL;DR: The authors examines the role of social context in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research, and direct attention to three major perspectives in organization studies (institutional, corporate, and social context).
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The Intersection of Family Firms and Institutional Contexts: A Review and Agenda for Future Research:
TL;DR: This article reviewed three decades of research at the inter-family level and found that family firms' interactions with institutional contexts have been a major research stream within family business scholarship, focusing on the interaction between family firms and institutional contexts.
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Understanding place-based entrepreneurship in rural Central Europe: A comparative institutional analysis
TL;DR: In this article, a sociological institutional framework for place-based entrepreneurship is proposed to provide new insight into the local institutional embeddedness of entrepreneurial behavior, and the authors provide new insights into local institutional embeddings of entrepreneurial behaviour.
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Social activism and practice diffusion: : How activist tactics affect non-targeted organizations
TL;DR: The authors examine how social activist tactics affect the diffusion of social-responsibility practices and examine the adoption of supplier-sanction practices by universities. But they focus on the adoption process of supplier sanction.
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Organizational transparency as myth and metaphor
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the mythical nature of transparency from this perspective, explain its social-historical underpinnings and discuss its influence on contemporary organizations, and theorize in a more general sense about the relationship between myth, as a foundational understanding and description of the world, and the constellation of metaphors, as specific ways of framing and seeing organizational reality, to which it gives rise.
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