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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 relationship between transparency, board performance and marketing practices on effectiveness of non-profit organization in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this paper, a limited scope of the investigation of the NPOs effectiveness in Malaysia based on the study of a set of indicators of the effectiveness of non-profit organizations such as; board performance, transparency and marketing practices.
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Towards an Integrative Perspective on Decoupling: Are Multinational Companies Doing CSR to Disguise Corruption?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relation between CSR and corruption at a set of 491 small and large internationally operating Swiss firms and found that firms that only "walk" but do not "talk" CSR are more likely to be involved in corrupt activities than firms who do neither 'walk' nor 'talk' CSR.
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Institutional Drivers for Managers: A study on Training Adoption and its Impact on Social Enterprises Legitimacy and Performance in Pakistan
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the reasons why social enterprises train their managers and how the legitimacy and performance improves in response to training, and emphasized the importance of institutional pressures in adopting training programs in social enterprises.
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Organizational Change under Institutional Logics: Family Control of Corporate Boards in Taiwan
Young Choon Kim,Chi-Nien Chung +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how family ownership affects the changing composition of board members in Taiwan and suggest that the association between family ownership and board composition should be understood in terms of family ownership.
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Researching Governance for Sustainable Development: Some Conceptual Clarifications
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the role of the social sciences in the wider processes of governance is sometimes misrepresented such that the likelihood of achieving consensual decision-making on environmental phenomena is overestimated.