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'Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony', American Journal of Sociology, 83, pp. 340-63.
W. Richard Scott
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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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Transfer of Performance Measurement System Innovations Across Economic Sectors
K. J. Euske,Mary A. Malina +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the transfer of performance measurement system (PMS) innovations across the three sectors of the economy: private, public, and nonprofit, using the frequency and timing of journal articles written about activity-based costing and balanced scorecard as a proxy for the actual transfer of the innovations within and across economic sectors.
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Cloud adoption: relative advantage or it fashion?
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Performing Canadian State Nationalism through Federal Symmetry
TL;DR: In the growing literature on the management of differences in multinational states, institutions (such as territorial autonomy or power-sharing) are typically understood as means through which vari... as mentioned in this paper.
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Digital transformation: why companies resist what they need for sustained performance
TL;DR: According to the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to identify digital decoupling strategies as a micro-foundation for organizational resistance to digital transformation.
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