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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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Evolution of information content from an institutional perspective: El Alcázar brewery (1928–1993)
Alonso Moreno,Macario Cámara +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the evolution of the information provided by El Alcazar, a private Spanish company, over the period 1928-1993, and applied a longitudinal thematic content analysis with the aim of understanding how the content of these documents adapts to the different institutional settings experienced by the company.
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The Interaction of Control Systems and Stakeholder Networks in Shaping the Identities of Self-Managed Teams:
TL;DR: Interaction of control systems and stakeholder networks in shaping the identities of self-managed teams is discussed in this paper, where the authors propose a framework for self-management in self-organized teams.
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Explaining variation in the degree of internalisation of political conditionality : the cases of France and the United Kingdom
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined French and British policies, legal documents and behaviour in relation to political conditionality in aid sanctions, focusing on four cases of EU aid sanctions: Madagascar 2009, Mozambique 2009, Nicaragua 2008 and Zimbabwe 2002.
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The emergent dynamics of a technological research topic: the case of graphene
TL;DR: The article analyzes the example of graphene, an advanced material, first demonstrated in 2004, which benefited from the visibility and expectations of policy makers, investors and R&D performers, and offers insights into the underlying dynamics, which accompanies the topic’s emergence and the subsequent hype.
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Responses to Conflicting Field Imperatives: Institutions and Agency Among Evangelical Christian Colleges
TL;DR: This article focused on evangelical Christian colleges, which sit at the juncture of the institutionalized fields of religion and higher education, and conceptualized field-level conflicts by drawing on “classic” institutional theory.