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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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Lost in internal evaluation? Accountability and insulation at the World Bank
TL;DR: The World Bank has been criticized by scholars, policymakers, and civil society groups for being unaccountable and inefficient as discussed by the authors. But despite this, the World Bank's decision-making process has been criticised by scholars and policymakers.
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Project management between will and representation
Serghei Floricel,Sorin Piperca +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at project management through two complementary lenses: one that accounts for cognitive and representational aspects and one that account for material and volitional aspects, inspired by the work of the German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer.
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The production of management knowledge : on the relationship between research and practice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify four modes of interactions between scholars and practitioners and discover a developmental process that is specific to the management innovations that are developed between research and practice, and study how the strategic concept of "Blue Ocean Strategy" is performed.
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International assessments of student achievement and public confidence in education: evidence from a cross-national study
TL;DR: One of the overarching goals of international large-scale assessments (ILSA) is to inform public discourse about the quality of education in different countries as discussed by the authors, which is the goal of this paper.
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Corporate entrepreneurship, ownership and governance in post-privatisation vietnam
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between board composition, ownership structure and corporate entrepreneurship in post-privatisation environments in Vietnamese privatised firms and found that board composition and characteristics have little impact on corporate entrepreneurship and ownership structure almost plays no role in enhancing the entrepreneurial activities of privatized firms.