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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 managing the structural and dynamic consequences of project complexity
TL;DR: A theoretical framework is proposed that highlights the most important consequences of complexity for the form and evolution of projects and use it to develop a typology of project complexity and advance a number of propositions regarding the strategies that can be most effective for different categories of complexity.
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All are not created equal: assessing local governments’ strategic approaches towards sustainability
Hyunjung Ji,Nicole Darnall +1 more
TL;DR: The authors posit that some local governments pursue more of the same strategies to design sustainability programs, and they posit that local governments often implement equivalent numbers of sustainability programmes, they likely utilize different strategies to implement them.
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How Do Individuals Judge Organizational Legitimacy? Effects of Attributed Motives and Credibility on Organizational Legitimacy:
TL;DR: In this paper, a model that demonstrates the role of attributed motives and corporate credibility for the evaluation of organization's legitimacy is presented. But the model is limited to individuals' legitimacy judgments.
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Translating tenure track into Swedish: tensions when implementing an academic career system
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare tenure tracks at three Swedish universities and identify three common drivers and rationales: transparency, recruitment of early career researchers and long-term retention of staff.
Opposition Parties and Anti-Government Protests in Comparative Perspective
Abstract: My dissertation adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the relationship between political parties and social movements in democratic countries. This work touches on the debates about why protest movements emerge and the literature on the consequences of party politics. It draws on rational choice and political process theories to explain the variation in anti-government protests in the context of democracies. I argue that the mobilization capacity of opposition parties matters for understanding the differing levels of protests. Specifically, focusing on the size and unity of the opposition camp as two unique dimensions of mobilization capacity, I contend that a larger opposition camp should encourage more anti-government protests only if the camp is more united. Moreover, I argue that, because of the differences in socio-economic backgrounds, political development trajectories, and the role of parties as mobilization agents, the effects of opposition mobilization capacity should work differently in developed countries and developing countries.
My research methodology includes work with both quantitative and qualitative data sources. I test my arguments empirically using statistical analyses of an original dataset incorporating protest event data and electoral data in 107 democratic countries. The analyses demonstrate that when opposition parties are strong and united, they are more able to mobilize large-scale collective protest actions. Moreover, I find that a higher level of mobilization capacity of opposition parties matters more to encourage anti-government protests in developing countries than in developed countries. Drawing on the interviews that I conducted during field trips in Peru and Taiwan, the qualitative case studies further illustrate why opposition mobilization capacity matters for the developing countries.
Overall, my research contributes to the literature on political behavior and enriches institutional theories by providing an innovative theoretical perspective and rigorous empirical analyses. More importantly, my research is relevant to more than political scientists and sociologists: the quantitative and qualitative data will help researchers understand the extent to which the dynamics of party/movement interactions vary across different regions, a necessary advance in a literature that has been dominated by single case studies.
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