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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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A Dynamic Process Model of Private Politics: Activist Targeting and Corporate Receptivity to Social Challenges
TL;DR: The authors argue that when firms are chronically targeted by social activists, they respond defensively by adopting strategic management devices that help them better manage social issues and demonstrate their normative appropriateness, which in turn increases a firm's receptivity to future activist challenges.
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MNE institutional advantage: How subunits shape, transpose and evade host country institutions
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Entrepreneurship from an Islamic Perspective
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Talent management and dynamic view of talent in small and medium enterprises
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the notion of talent management is likely to be different in SMEs compared with large firms mainly due to distinct institutional and structural factors, and propose a framework that helps identify the characteristics of talent in small and medium-sized enterprises.
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“They Are All Organizations”: The Cultural Roots of Blurring Between the Nonprofit, Business, and Government Sectors:
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TL;DR: An important transformation is reshaping once-distinct social structures, such as charitable and religious groups, family firms, and government agencies, into more analogous units called organizati.
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