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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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Service productivity:what stops service firms from measuring it?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a conceptual model of antecedents of service productivity measurement in service firms and test it using data from 276 service firms, finding that customer integration and the perceived difficulty of measuring service productivity negatively affect SPM.
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Toward Exclusion through Inclusion: Engendering Reputation with Gender-Inclusive Facilities at Colleges and Universities in the United States, 2001-2013:
TL;DR: This article showed that binary gender ideologies are an intractable part of formal organizations, and that transgender issues tend to be marginalized by a wide range of social and political forces, such as racism and sexism.
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Divine Development: Transnational Indian Religious Organizations in the United States and India
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Building the Airplane While it Flies: A Case Study Approach of Police Development in Kosovo, Liberia, and Timor-Leste
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the development of police forces during post-conflict reconstruction to determine what makes some police development interventions more successful than others, and examine the interaction of goals, structure, and agency.
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Accreditation and Resident Safety in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes.
TL;DR: To prevent inequalities in organizations' ability to pursue accreditation, policymakers may need to consider new initiatives that reduce barriers for LTC homes that lack sufficient resources.
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