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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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Corporate social responsibility reporting in China: Symbol or substance?
Christopher Marquis,Cuili Qian +1 more
TL;DR: A political dependence model is developed that explains how different types of dependency on the government lead firms to issue corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive.
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Country-level institutions, firm value, and the role of corporate social responsibility initiatives
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors posit that the value of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives is greater in countries where an absence of market-supporting institutions increases transaction costs and limits access to resources.
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The Means and End of Greenwash
TL;DR: Greenwash: Greenwash is communication that misleads people into forming overly positive opinions about environmental performance as discussed by the authors. But, greenwash is a form of communication that encourages people to form overly positive beliefs about environmental outcomes.
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Theory Building A Review and Integration
Dean A. Shepherd,Roy Suddaby +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of the literature on theory building in management around the five key elements of a good story is presented, namely conflict, character, setting, sequence, and plot and arc.
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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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The history of accounting standard setting in an emerging transition economy: The case of Vietnam:
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Organizational Responses to Proto-Institutions: How the Semi-edited and Unedited Accounts Clash:
TL;DR: While adoption of institutionalized structures has received immense attention from organizational scholars, the processes associated with adoption of proto-institutions are infrequently studied as discussed by the authors, and the authors of this paper focus on the adoption process of such structures.