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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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Legitimacy as a Social Process
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Outside directors and firm performance during institutional transitions
TL;DR: In this paper, Wang et al. found that outsider directors do make a difference in firm performance, if such performance is measured by sales growth, and that they have little impact on financial performance such as return on equity (ROE).
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Decoupling policy from practice: The case of stock repurchase programs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine firms' decoupling of informal practices from formally adopted policies through analysis of the implementation of stock repurchase programs by large U.S. corporations in the late 1990s.
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Community isomorphism and corporate social action
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of how institutional pressures at the community level shape corporate social action, behaviors and practices that extend beyond immediate profit maximization goals and are intended to increase social benefits or mitigate social problems for constituency external to the firm.
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Towards an Institution-Based View of Business Strategy
TL;DR: In this article, an institution-based view of business strategy is presented, which sheds light on why firms differ, reviews four streams of research in a broad range of countries, and critiques and extends some of the current work by suggesting future research directions.
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