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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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Nonprofit Commercial Revenue: A Replacement for Declining Government Grants and Private Contributions?
TL;DR: The authors examined whether there has been an increase in nonprofit commercial revenue and if so whether declines in government grants and private contributions were behind the rise in commercial revenue in the last few decades.
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The impact of institutional pressures, top managers' posture and reverse logistics on performance—Evidence from China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the effects of three institutional pressures on top managers' posture towards reverse logistics implementation: government, customer, and competitor pressures, and found that product recovery has a significant positive effect on a firm's economic and environmental performance.
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Who invests in renewable electricity production? Empirical evidence and suggestions for further research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a multi-dimensional framework for analyzing differences between categories of investors, which not only considers to the standard economic dimension which is predominant in the contemporary energy literature, but also considers the entrepreneurship, innovation-adoption and institutional dimensions.
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The Social Life of Information Systems Research: A Response to Benbasat and Zmud's Call for Returning to the IT Artifact
TL;DR: It is recommended that researchers and journal editors set the boundaries of the field more firmly so that greater attention is given to the IT artifact rather than to structure, context, or other phenomena that lie distant from the discipline.
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Organizations in the Shadow of Communities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that communities play an underappreciated role in organizational theory and that communities represent both opportunities and threats to organizations and conclude with a research agenda that more fully accounts for the potential of community forms to be a creator (and a possible destroyer) of value for organizations.
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