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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 Dynamics of Centralized Procurement Reform in a Decentralized State : Evidence and Lessons from Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the extent to which procurement reform is translating into improvements in sub-national performance and found that local government leadership is associated with the uptake of reform.
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Schools’ influence on their environment: The parents’ perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors view school as a platform for leading social change in the local community, with a particular emphasis on the school's parents as a part of that community.
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'COPE'ing with institutional pressures: a reintroduction of pragmatism to the study of organisations
TL;DR: The authors propose a synthesis of pragmatism through the COPE typology that represents their view of the four main tenants of pragmatic thought: critical, ontological, positivistic and epistemic.
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Resisting and surviving the mainstream scientific model: Findings on social relevance and social impact in the tropics
TL;DR: The question of the social relevance and social impact of knowledge has gained prominence in the last few years as mentioned in this paper, however, the debate appears to have been restricted to academia in North America and the United Kingdom.
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