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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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Risks Inside and Beyond Institutional Walls: Organisational Responses to Substance Use in Canadian Federal Prisons
TL;DR: This article examined substance abuse policy and related practices within Canadian federal prisons and found that continued efforts by offenders to bring substances into prisons, climate of tensions and violence, offenders switching substances, health-related harms, and a culture of distrusting visitors.
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Resisting Throughput Pressures: Physicians’ and Patients’ Strategies to Manage Hospital Discharge
TL;DR: Examination of one of the most difficult discharge cases physicians encounter on the internal medicine service at a U.S. teaching hospital: resistant patients—patients and families who refuse to leave the hospital draws from the sociological literature on professions, managerialism, and consumerism.
The economic impact of deficient anti-money laundering program to a multinational bank
TL;DR: Hayble-Gomes et al. as discussed by the authors explored the strategies that compliance officers used to improve the AML program in a multinational bank in the northeastern United States and found that advanced technology, employee trainings and management oversight are essential to improve AML programs.
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Reframing the Racialization of Disabilities in Policy.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, although a civil rights based legislation, cannot sufficiently address racially disproportionate outcomes in special education, and they argue that mandating equity through technical and procedural mandates cannot attend to the sociocultural and social contexts in which policy is appropriated to practice.
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Collaboration for transition between TVET and university: a proposal
TL;DR: In this article, a model of collaboration between the polytechnic institutes and the universities in Bangladesh is developed, using a mix of critical reflection on literature on TVET and higher education and unstructured interviews with two TVET experts, four TVET students and four students from a public university.
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