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Legal Environments and Organizational Governance: The Expansion of Due Process in the American Workplace
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In this article, the authors examine the effect of legal environments on the expansion of due process in organizational governance and show that the civil rights mandates of the 1960s created a normative environment that threatened the legitimacy of arbitrary organizational governance.Abstract:
This article examines the effect of legal environments on the expansion of due process in organizational governance. Event-history analyses of personnel practices in 52 organizations show that the civil rights mandates of the 1960s created a normative environment that threatened the legitimacy of arbitrary organizational governance. This precipitated a diffusion of formal grievance procedures for nonunion employees. Proximity to the public sphere, number of employees, and structural differentiation of the personnel function rendered organizations more vulnerable to normative pressure. Variation along these dimensions explains variations in the rates of rights expansion across organizations.read more
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
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Institutional logics and the historical contingency of power in organizations: Executive succession in the higher education publishing industry, 1958-1990
TL;DR: The authors examined the historical contingency of executive power and succession in the higher education publishing industry and found that a shift in logics led to different determinants of executive succession, such as author-editor relationships and internal growth.
Institutional Logics and the Historical Contingency of Power in Organizations
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Industry Self-Regulation Without Sanctions: The Chemical Industry's Responsible Care Program
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Explaining the Limited Effectiveness of Legalistic “Remedies” for Trust/Distrust
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TL;DR: In this article, a theory that distinguishes two dimensions of trust, task-specific reliability and value congruence, is presented, and it is shown that legalistic mechanisms respond only to reliability concerns, while ignoring value-related concerns.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
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TL;DR: Many formal organizational structures arise as reflections of rationalized institutional rules as discussed by the authors, and the elaboration of such rules in modern states and societies accounts in part for the expansion and i...
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