Book ChapterDOI
'Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony', American Journal of Sociology, 83, pp. 340-63.
W. Richard Scott
- pp 493-516
About:
The article was published on 2016-12-05. It has received 992 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ceremony.read more
Citations
More filters
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Fitting In to Stand Out: How Teachers at Small, Urban “Specialty Schools” Experience Extra-Organizational Influence
Jeff Walls,Sara Kemper +1 more
TL;DR: In an era of increased attention to academic achievement gaps, expanding educational options has emerged as one approach to meeting the diverse learning needs of urban youth as mentioned in this paper. But, this multiple-...
Journal ArticleDOI
School board decision-making and the elimination of sport participation fees
TL;DR: This paper investigated why and how school districts eliminate pay-to-play and found that the decision to terminate the practice in the Ellis district was shaped by the community culture and district leadership.
Journal ArticleDOI
The performance dimension in symbolic management revisited: the functional role of traditional mechanisms in large Korean firms*
TL;DR: In this article, Choi et al. found that the positive influence of traditional mechanisms such as business group on performance, measured by ROA and R&D intensity, improves market responses, i.e. market capitalization and Tobin's q.
Journal ArticleDOI
Orienting Schools toward Equity: Subgroup Accountability Pressure and School-Level Responses.
TL;DR: This paper examined school-level responses to subgroup accountability pressure through an ethnographic case study of a school cited for failing to make adequate yearly progress for student subgroup sub-group accountability.