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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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Departmental Professionalism and Its Impact on Indicators of Violence in Police–Citizen Encounters
TL;DR: Results from ordinary least squares regression analyses show that only departmental commitment to education was related to the police–citizen violence indicators, as agencies that require an associate’s degree experienced fewer citizen complaints of use of force and fewer assaults on their officers.
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Status-Aspirational Pricing The “Chivas Regal” Strategy in U.S. Higher Education, 2006–2012
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TL;DR: The authors examines the effect of status loss on organizations' price-setting behavior and predicts that a status loss is counter to current status theory and aligned with performance feedback theory, and shows that status decl...
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House of Green Cards: Statistical or Preference-Based Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals
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Lean thinking: outside-in, bottom-up? The paradox of contemporary soft lean and consultant-driven lean implementation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report a longitudinal, qualitative case study of how a large consultancy firm supported lean implementation in a public service organisation, finding that although the consultants' rhetoric had been adapted to the contemporary ideal of soft lean, their practice had not: implementation remained tool-centred and external consultants took the roles of experts.
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The societal relevance of management accounting: An introduction to the special issue
TL;DR: In the special issue of Accounting and Business Research as discussed by the authors, the societal relevance of management accounting is explored and the individual contributions within this research agenda are highlighted. But the discussion is guided by an over-riding ambition to turn management accounting research "inside out" to examine the effects of accounting practices on a broader range of constituencies and interests in society and the formation of such practices beyond individual organisations.
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