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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 National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark
John Campbell,Ove K. Pedersen +1 more
TL;DR: The political economy of knowledge regimes and the origins of policy ideas are discussed in this paper, with a focus on the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark, and the nature of Negotiation in Denmark.
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National corporate governance institutions and post‐acquisition target reorganization
Laurence Capron,Mauro F. Guillén +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the characteristics of national systems of corporate governance to theorize about the nature of the shareholders' and employees' interests when it comes to reorganization, under the assumption that the firm is coalitional in nature.
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Technology Transfer Offices as Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Case of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Human Embryonic Stem Cells
TL;DR: In this paper, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's (WARF) initiatives to support the emergence of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) technology are investigated. And the authors highlight the role of technology transfer offices as institutional entrepreneurs involved in building legitimacy for novel technologies.
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How Golden Parachutes Unfolded: Diffusion and Variation of a Controversial Practice
TL;DR: Variation in “golden parachute” contracts, a controversial corporate governance practice that emerged and spread widely during the hostile takeover wave of the 1980s, is studied to find evidence of mechanisms that both increase and decrease extensiveness and variation of golden parachutes.
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The Role of the State in Explaining the Internationalization of Emerging Market Enterprises
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the state and institutional idiosyncrasies in the home country help emerging market enterprises (EMEs) internationalize and demonstrate that state ownership has a strong independent effect on the international expansion of EMEs.
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