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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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When Innovations Meet Institutions: Edison and the Design of the Electric Light:
TL;DR: The role of design in mediating between innovations and established institutional fields as entrepren... as mentioned in this paper considers design as the emergent arrangement of concrete details that embodies a new idea.
Legitimacy in Organizational Institutionalism
TL;DR: A recent survey of the literature on legitimacy in organizational institutionalism can be found in this article, where the authors provide an overview of past theoretical and empirical research on legitimacy, including some basic suggestions on the dimensions, sources, and subjects of legitimacy, as well as on key legitimation processes, antecedents and consequences.
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The Internationalization of Chinese Firms: A Case for Theoretical Extension?[1]
John Child,Suzana B. Rodrigues +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines the patterns of, and motives for, internationalization by prominent market-seeking Chinese firms and concludes that the Chinese case offers an opportunity to extend present theorizing in four primary areas concerning the latecomer perspective and catch-up strategies, institutional analysis with reference to the role of government, the relations between entrepreneurs and institutions, and the liability of foreignness.
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Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy
TL;DR: The second edition of the celebrated volume by Professor John H. Dunning, first published in 1993, which has now been not only updated but also enriched with the addition of a number of new topics as mentioned in this paper, is a comprehensive synthesis of all the theories in International Business based on extremely rich data evaluation in almost all fields of TNC activities and their environment.
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Corporate Elite Networks and Governance Changes in the 1980s
Gerald F. Davis,Henrich R. Greve +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the spreads of two governance innovations adopted in response to the 1980s takeover wave: poison pills (which spread rapidly through a board-to-board diffusion process) and golden parachutes(which spread slowly through geographic proximity).
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