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Late Adoption of the Multidivisional Form by Large U.S. Corporations: Institutional, Political, and Economic Accounts
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Strategy in Emerging Economies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine strategy formulation and implementation by private and public enterprises in several different regional settings and from three primary theoretical perspectives: institutional theory, transaction cost economics, and the resource-based view of the firm.
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Understanding Radical Organizational Change: Bringing Together the Old and the New Institutionalism
Royston Greenwood,C. R. Hinings +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors set out a framework for understanding organizational changes from the perspective of neo-institutional theory and examined the processes by which individual organizations retain, adopt, and discard templates for organizing, given the institutionalized nature of organizational fields.
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The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology
Stephen P. Borgatti,Pacey Foster +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed and analyzed the emerging network paradigm in organizational research and developed a set of dimensions along which network studies vary, including direction of causality, levels of analysis, explanatory goals, and explanatory mechanisms.
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Theorizing Change: The Role of Professional Associations in the Transformation of Institutionalized Fields
TL;DR: The authors examines the role of professional associations in a changing, highly institutionalized organizational field and suggests that they play a significant role in legitimating change and suggest that professional associations play an important role in supporting change.
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Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution:
TL;DR: The authors discusses the similarities between the two theories, develops an argument for why a fusion of the two would enable institutional theory to significantly advance, develops a model of institutionalization as a structuration process, and proposes methodological guidelines for investigating the process empirically.
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