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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 impact of social norms on entrepreneurial action: Evidence from the environmental entrepreneurship context
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and tested a model of the relationship between centralized and decentralized institutions on entrepreneurial activity and found that both decentralized institutions that are socially determined as well as centralized institutions designed by governmental authorities are important in promoting firm foundings in the environmental context.
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Strategic, structural contingency and institutional explanations in the adoption of innovative manufacturing practices
TL;DR: In this article, three different theoretical perspectives that can be used to address the phenomenon: strategic contingency, structural contingency, and neo-institutional arguments are compared in a sample of 164 manufacturing plants, and they find that the institutional perspective explains more of the variance in the practices adopted and implemented by the plants than either the structural contingency or the strategic contingency theories.
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An institutional analysis of methods for environmental appraisal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on a set of issues when choosing between methods for environmental appraisal and propose a general framework for evaluating appraisal methods, which is elaborated in more detail as a basis for deciding over the choices of methods in the case of evaluating ecosystem services.
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World Politics and Organizational Fields: The Case of Transnational Sustainability Governance
Klaus Dingwerth,Philipp Pattberg +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore why transnational rule-making organizations share a set of core features that appear overly optimistic in the area of sustainability politics and explore why these organizations share the same core features.
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Formal control and social control in domestic and international buyer–supplier relationships
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between formal control and social control in long-term buyer-supplier relationships and develop a model to investigate the impact of the length of cooperation and institutionalization on the use of control mechanisms.
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