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Rhetorical Strategies of Legitimacy

Roy Suddaby, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2005 - 
- Vol. 50, Iss: 1, pp 35-67
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In this article, the role of rhetoric in legitimating profound institutional change is described. And the authors describe how a Big Five accounting firm purchased a law firm, triggering a jurisdictional struggle within accoun...
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This paper describes the role of rhetoric in legitimating profound institutional change. In 1997, a Big Five accounting firm purchased a law firm, triggering a jurisdictional struggle within accoun...

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Institutions and Institutional Work

Thomas B. Lawrence, +2 more
- 16 Jun 2006 - 
TL;DR: The Handbook of Organization Studies as mentioned in this paper provides a retrospective and prospective overview of organization studies, providing a synthesis of knowledge and literature from the field of organizational studies, and provides an overview of the most significant issues to affect organization studies such as leadership, diversity and globalization.
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Institutional Complexity and Organizational Responses

Royston Greenwood, +4 more
- 26 Jul 2011 - 
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.
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Building sustainable hybrid organizations: the case of commercial microfinance organizations

Julie Battilana, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a ready-to-w...
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How actors change institutions : Towards a theory of institutional entrepreneurship

Julie Battilana, +2 more
- 05 Aug 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present theoretical and definitional issues associated with the concept and propose a conceptual account of institutional entrepreneurship that helps to accommodate them, and highlight future directions for research on institutional entrepreneurship, and conclude with a discussion of its role in strengthening institutional theory as well as in the field of organization studies.
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The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World: A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy

Andreas Georg Scherer, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2011 - 
TL;DR: A review of the literature shows that there are a growing number of publications from various disciplines that propose a politicized concept of corporate social responsibility as mentioned in this paper, and that many business firms have started to assume social and political responsibilities that go beyond legal requirements and fill the regulatory vacuum in global governance.
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Basics of qualitative research : grounded theory procedures and techniques

Anselm L. Strauss, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1992 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the uses of literature and open coding techniques for enhancing theoretical sensitivity of theoretical studies, and give guidelines for judging a grounded theory study.
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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

John W. Meyer, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1977 - 
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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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

Peter L. Berger, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of knowledge in everyday life in the context of a theory of society as a dialectical process between objective and subjective reality, focusing particularly on that common-sense knowledge which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of society.
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Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences

Bruce Lawrence Berg
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive review of the literature on content analysis in the field of qualitative research, focusing on the role of focus groups and focus groups in the research process.
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Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches

Mark C. Suchman
- 01 Jul 1995 - 
TL;DR: This article synthesize the large but diverse literature on organizational legitimacy, highlighting similarities and disparities among the leading strategic and institutional approaches, and identify three primary forms of legitimacy: pragmatic, based on audience self-interest; moral, based upon normative approval; and cognitive, according to comprehensibility and taken-for-grantedness.