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Institutions and Organizations
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Early Institutionalists Constructed an Analytic Framework I Three Pillars of Institutions Constructing an Analytical Framework II Content, Agency, Carriers and Levels Institutional Construction, Maintenance and Diffusion Institutional Processes Affecting Societal Systems, Organizational Fields, and Organizational Populations Institutional processes Affecting Organizational Structure and Performance Institutional Change Looking Back, Looking ForwardAbstract:
Introduction Early Institutionalists Institutional Theory and Organizations Constructing an Analytic Framework I Three Pillars of Institutions Constructing an Analytic Framework II Content, Agency, Carriers and Levels Institutional Construction, Maintenance and Diffusion Institutional Processes Affecting Societal Systems, Organizational Fields, and Organizational Populations Institutional Processes Affecting Organizational Structure and Performance Institutional Change Looking Back, Looking Forwardread more
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The Institution-Based View as a Third Leg for a Strategy Tripod.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the emergence of the institution-based view as a third leading perspective in strategic management (the first two being the industry-based and resource-based views).
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Institutional Theory in the Study of Multinational Corporations: A Critique and New Directions
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature suggests that international management applications of this perspective have been dominated by a narrow set of neo-institutional ideas, and they develop a set of provocations that challenge the validity of traditional neoinstitutionalism in the context of MNCs.
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How Institutions Evolve: Insights from Comparative Historical Analysis
Kathleen Thelen,Kathleen Thelen +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the origins and evolution of such institutions in four countries -Germany, Britain, United States and Japan -and highlighted the limits of the most prominent approaches to institutional change, and identified the political processes through which the form and functions of institutions can be radically reconfigured over time.
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A review of the theories of corporate social responsibility: Its evolutionary path and the road ahead
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the conceptual evolutionary path of theories on corporate social responsibility and reflect on the implications of the development of these theories, and suggest that future research needs to refocus on basic research in order to develop conceptual tools and theoretical mechanisms that explain changing organizational behavior from a broader societal perspective.
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Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies:
TL;DR: Employers have experimented with three broad approaches to promoting diversity: organizational responsibility for diversity, moderate managerial bi-partitioning, and diversity education as discussed by the authors. But none of these approaches have been widely accepted.
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