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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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Boosting youth sport? Implementation of Norwegian youth sport policy through the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games
TL;DR: Neo-institutional concepts of organizational change and organizational reproduction combined with implementation theory are employed to examine the implementation of the Norwegian youth sport polic... as discussed by the authors, which is used in this paper.
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Policy transfer or policy churn? Institutional isomorphism and neoliberal convergence in the transport sector
TL;DR: This paper showed that an increase in policy transfer is associated with convergence of not just policies but also institutional and institutional and or institutional norms, and that policy transfer was associated with the convergence of policies and institutions.
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Institutional and competitive drivers on managers’ training and organizational outcomes
TL;DR: In this article, an empirical study was carried out on 374 Spanish firms to analyze the drivers and outcomes of managers training and found that managers training is driven by institutional forces, particularly normative and mimetic forces, and to a lesser extent by competitive factors.
Mapping and Developing Service Design Research in the UK.
TL;DR: The Service Design Research UK (SDR UK) Network as mentioned in this paper aims to create a UK research network in an emerging field in Design that is Service Design. This field has a recent history and a growing, but still small and dispersed, research community that strongly needs support and visibility to consolidate its knowledge base and enhance its potential impact.
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Lost in internal evaluation? Accountability and insulation at the World Bank
TL;DR: The World Bank has been criticized by scholars, policymakers, and civil society groups for being unaccountable and inefficient as discussed by the authors. But despite this, the World Bank's decision-making process has been criticised by scholars and policymakers.
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