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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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From macro-state to meso-organizing: A sociological review of the transition of Chinese local governments in the past 30 years:
TL;DR: The transition of Chinese local governments has continuously been the main theme for sociologists since the fiscal, administrative, and market reforms launched in the 1980s as mentioned in this paper, and the transition has been studied extensively in the literature.
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Social Reconstruction of New Ventures' Liabilities of Newness and Smallness: An Example From the French Technology Sector
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role of social movement in entrepreneurial failures and its impact on the public perception of entrepreneurial failures, and they find that the entrepreneurs whose ventures' development is hampered by inability to access incumbents' resources frame their hardship as injustice rather than simple misfortune or mistake.
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Stakeholder influences on the choice and performance of FDI-based market entry modes : a conceptual model
K. V. Mukundhan,M.K. Nandakumar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of stakeholder influences on the performance of emerging market firms (EMFs) entering developed markets through foreign direct investment (FDI)-based market entry modes is investigated.
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Military-Style Weapons in Policing: A Limited Test of Diffusion Theory
TL;DR: The authors used a snowball sampling technique to distribute an online survey to 168 officers who in the past had attended the FBI National Academy and found that three mechanisms common in policy diffusion were measured: learning, coercion, and imitation.
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L’institutionnalisation des pôles d’activité médicale : entre agir stratégique et agir projectif
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse le processus d'institutionnalisation en considerant les strategies and les actions des acteurs revelees par leur implication dans les activites discursives and d'action collective.
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