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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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How aims of “looking good” may limit the possibilities of “being good” : The case of the Swedish Police
TL;DR: The expression "being good or looking good" as discussed by the authors highlights a tension between presented images of how an organization works and how it actually works, but also indicates that an aim to look...
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A Natural Experiment on Institutionalized Choice and Individual Entrepreneurial Behavior
TL;DR: The authors explored a natural experiment at Tsinghua University, in which the institution eliminated a constraint, the academic year system, resulting in greater institutionalized choice among students and found that institutionalised choice fostered greater variation in students' choices in selecting courses and in turn, generated greater entrepreneurial behavior.
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Gender and distribution of educational values among the staff in kindergartens
Bent Olsen,Eli Smeplass +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report and reflect on a study of kindergarten staff member's gendered attitudes, which consists of answers to a questionnaire from some 700 staff members of all 80 kindergartens in two Danish municipalities.
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Forum: Inconsistency and Communication in Organizations:
Lee Edwards,Magnus Fredriksson +1 more
TL;DR: In all organizations, whether corporations, public administrations, cultural institutions, community groups, non-governmental organizations, or political parties, activities take place under circumstances that are highly contradictory.
Kultur för regional utveckling
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TL;DR: In this paper, copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.