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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.

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Sustainability reporting by Australian local government authorities

TL;DR: This article investigated the sustainability reporting practices of local government authorities in Western Australia through content analysis of their websites and found that sustainability reporting remains moderately practised by local governments, despite stakeholder demand for proactive disclosures.
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La generación de conocimiento en estrategia organizacional en Colombia.

TL;DR: A continuidad de cuatro estudios previos auspiciados by Ascolfa sobre la investigacion en Administracion en Colombia, se caracteriza la produccion academica que sobre estema han realizado grupos de investigacion in el pais durante los anos recientes; e identifica enfoques, tendencias, aportes and vacios de la investigación as mentioned in this paper.
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University alliances in the Europe of knowledge: Positions, agendas and practices in policy processes

TL;DR: In this article, the role of university alliances in European level policy processes concerning higher education and research is investigated. And the implications their involvement might have for future shaping of European initiatives in the knowledge domain.
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Inhabited Institutions in New Destinations Local Sense-Making and Institutional Work in Community Response to New Immigration

TL;DR: The authors identify key ways that local residents actively make sense of, and enact, community response for Latino immigrant newcomers in two Midwest new destination communities, and find that the majority of the responses are positive.
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Management Accounting and Control in the Hospital Industry: A Review

TL;DR: An overview of the literature in management accounting and control systems (MACS) in the hospital industry is presented in this paper, where the authors present a variety of regulatory changes aimed at reducing healthcare costs and increasing access.
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An Institutional Theory perspective on sustainable practices across the dairy supply chain

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of supermarkets in the development of legitimate sustainable practices across the dairy supply chains and found that the dominant logic appeared to be one of cost reduction and profit maximization.
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Overcoming distrust: How state-owned enterprises adapt their foreign entries to institutional pressures abroad

TL;DR: This paper found that state-owned enterprises adapt mode and control decisions differently from private firms to the conditions in host countries, and these differences are larger where pressures for legitimacy on SO firms are stronger.