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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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Distance and divestment of Korean MNC affiliates: the moderating role of entry mode and experience
Chinmay Pattnaik,Jeoung Yul Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of cross-national distance on the divestment of foreign affiliates and found that distance created by economic, financial, political, administrative, cultural, demographic, knowledge and global connectedness leads to divestment.
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Diversity Regimes and Racial Inequality: A Case Study of Diversity University:
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of how diversity is defined, organized, and implemented within an American public flagship university reveals what I characterize as a diversity regime: a set of meanings and practices that institutionalizes a benign commitment to diversity, and in doing so obscures, entrenches, and intensifies existing racial inequality by failing to make fundamental changes in how power, resources, and opportunities are distributed.
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Organizational Rituals, Communication, and the Question of Agency
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative framework of organizational rituals based on insights from communication theory and the literature on the communicative constitution of organization/ing (CCO) is developed to explain how rituals make present abstract representations of organizational power and value in ways that convey authority and bear down upon the activities and decisions of organizational members.
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‘A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words’: Multimodal Sensemaking of the Global Financial Crisis:
TL;DR: Through its specific rhetorical potential that is distinct from verbal text, visual material facilitates and plays a pivotal role in linking novel phenomena to established and taken-for-granted soci....
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Emerging meta-organisations and adaptation to global climate change: Evidence from implementing adaptation in Nepal, Pakistan and Ghana
Abrar S. Chaudhury,Abrar S. Chaudhury,Marc J. Ventresca,Thomas F. Thornton,Ariella Helfgott,Ariella Helfgott,Chase Sova,Chase Sova,Prajwal Baral,Tahir Rasheed,Jasper Ligthart +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and analyse six attributes of the meta and component organisational structures in three countries, Nepal, Pakistan and Ghana, and demonstrate that these divergent structures arise from the different needs for legitimacy and accountability, and the relative priority attached to adaptation against other needs.
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