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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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A unified framework for incorporating decision making into explanations of business failure
TL;DR: The study articulates how a set of attributes of decision makers, i.e. human capital obsolescence, powerlessness, meaninglessness and institutional linkages contributes to organisational failure.
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Human resource management – a national business system perspective
TL;DR: Although a sizeable body of academic literature has attempted to explain the role of national business systems in the context of human resource management (HRM), there is still little research on t... as mentioned in this paper.
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Rule(s) over regulation: the making of water reforms and regulatory cultures in Maharashtra, India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on how water sector reforms are unfolding in the state of Maharashtra, India, and show how a seemingly "apolitical" initiative aimed to dilute the authority of the State in the water sector is subverted to shape and reinforce its control.
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Institutional isomorphism and the Asian Development Bank's accountability mechanism: something old, something new; something borrowed, something blue?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how and why the Asian Development Bank (ADB) created an accountability mechanism, and whether the accountability mechanism serves its purpose to hold the ADB to account and to provide a fair hearing of the views of the affected group.
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Moral dividends: Freemasonry and finance capitalism in early-nineteenth-century America
TL;DR: This article used documents from the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the State of Indiana (USA) to show how the material practices and symbolic orientations of finance capitalism became transposed into Freemasonry in the early-nineteenth century.
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