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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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Ex Ante Project Evaluation and the Complexity of Early Decision-Making
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an empirical study of 23 projects, which examines the complexity of processes that occur in the idea-and decision phases, and suggest that the early appraisal of an investment case or a project should apply essentially the same evaluation criteria that will be used in ex post evaluation.
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Community and Innovation: From Tönnies to Marx
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The Business-Led Globalization of CSR: Channels of Diffusion From the United States Into Venezuela and Britain, 1962-1981:
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TL;DR: The global spread of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices is widely explained in institutional-isomorphic terms: Corporations worldwide adopt CSR in reaction to isomorphic pressures exer... as discussed by the authors.
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Academic entrepreneurship and institutional change in historical perspective
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The impact of cultural factors on the implementation of global accounting standards (IFRS) in a developing country
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