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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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Creativity caged in translation: a neo-institutional perspective on crisis communication/Creatividad enjaulado en la traducción: una perspectiva neo-institucional sobre comunicación de crisis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework based on new institutional theory for analysing crisis communication practices as a societal phenomenon and discuss how these ideas become translated (i.e., modified) as they travel across organisational and institutional contexts.
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Stretched Too Thin? The Paradox of Promoting Diversity in Higher Education
Edward Smith,Yuan Tian +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine an unintended consequence of diversity promotion in higher education, and demonstrate that departmental efforts to increase the representation of racial minorities can result in negative consequences.
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UN-Missionen als Strukturen internationaler Interventionen - organisationale Autonomisierungsprozesse aus weltgesellschaftstheoretischer Perspektive
TL;DR: In this article, Lücke adressiert der vorliegende Beitrag, indem er Strukturbildungsund Autonomisierungsprozessen durch und in UN-missionen aus konfliktsystemischer und weltgesellschaftstheoretischer perspektive analysiert.
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Hong Kong’s Cross-System University Partnerships
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the special case of Hong Kong higher education's institutional partnerships in the Chinese mainland and provide a neo-institutional perspective on the differences between the two China higher education systems.
Safe Hands: Institutional Dynamics of Work Environment Management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of intra-organizational experts in the field of work environment management, as well as the concrete work environment efforts of the experts in their organizational contexts.
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