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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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Strategies for Executing Federated Queries in SPARQL1.1
TL;DR: It is shown that some seemingly intuitive methods for decomposing federated queries provide unsound results in the general case, and fixes or discuss under which restrictions these recipes are still applicable.
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The Burden of History in the Family Business Organization
TL;DR: In this article, the dilemma of the impossible gift of succession using Nietzsche's discussion of the burden of history and paralleling the story of a family business succession with that of Shakespeare's King Lear is considered.
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Theorization as institutional work: The dynamics of roles and practices
Sébastien Mena,Roy Suddaby +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a longitudinal inductive study of theorization by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) revealed that when institutional work shifts from changing to maintaining an institutional arrangement of corporate social responsibility, there is a key change in how the FLA theorizes roles and practices related to this arrangement.
An Ethnography of Bureaucratic Practice in a New York State Federally Qualified Community Health Center
TL;DR: An ethnographic approach is used and a substantial historical account of the emergence of the FQHC program is delivered in order to connect that account to the broader arc of healthcare history in the United States during the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Conformers, Adaptors, Imitators, and Rejecters: How No-excuses Teachers’ Cultural Toolkits Shape Their Responses to Control:
TL;DR: This paper used the case of an urban, "no-excuses" charter school to examine how teachers responded to the school's intensive effort to socialize them into a uniform set of disciplinary practices.
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