Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers.
01 Jun 1990-Vol. 25, Iss: 2, pp 363
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on a variety of cognate literatures to discuss the field-level structural characteristics and organizational attributes that shape institutional complexity and explore the repertoire of strategies and structures that organizations deploy to cope with multiple, competing demands.
Abstract: Organizations face institutional complexity whenever they confront incompatible prescriptions from multiple institutional logics. Our interest is in how plural institutional logics, refracted through field-level structures and processes, are experienced within organizations and how organizations respond to such complexity. We draw on a variety of cognate literatures to discuss the field-level structural characteristics and organizational attributes that shape institutional complexity. We then explore the repertoire of strategies and structures that organizations deploy to cope with multiple, competing demands. The analytical framework developed herein is presented to guide future scholarship in the systematic analysis of institutional complexity. We conclude by suggesting avenues for future research.
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Abstract: We develop a theoretical model to describe and explain variation in corporate governance among advanced capitalist economies, identifying the social relations and institutional arrangements that shape who controls corporations, what interests corporations serve, and the allocation of rights and responsibilities among corporate stakeholders. Our “actor-centered” institutional approach explains firm-level corporate governance practices in terms of institutional factors that shape how actors' interests are defined (“socially constructed”) and represented. Our model has strong implications for studying issues of international convergence.
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...Thus, it is important to revisit and account for the diverse roles of management (Barnard, 1938; Guillén, 1994; Jackell, 1990)....
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...Thus, it is important to revisit and account for the diverse roles of management (Barnard, 1938; Guillén, 1994; Jackell, 1990)....
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...Jackall (1988) suggests that the world of corporate management calls for sophisticated, politically conscious language use, in which the language user separates or loosely couples discourse and meaning:...
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