The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth
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...Underscoring the centrality of these processes, Edelman et al. (1999) insists that law should not be treated as an exogenous force on organizations, but rather “considered at least in part endogenous, constructed in and through the organizational fields that it seeks to regulate.”...
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...Espeland (1998) was among the first to examine “recoupling” processes through which formal policies and daily activities move from being disconnected to being closely linked. In her analysis of the Orme Dam in Arizona, she shows that “Old Guard” engineers became invested in the project for its own sake, although it was not the most optimal way to generate electricity and water. Eventually, a new group of engineers implemented a cost-benefit decision-making process, and plans for building the dam were abandoned in favor of a more effective approach, thereby re-aligning practice with technical rationality. Similarly, renewed attention to schools has resulted in accounts of the recoupling of school practices to formal policies due to the heightened salience of external accountability measures (Spillane, Parise, & Sherer, 2011). In a rich ethnographic study, Hallett (2010) emphasized that the process of recoupling in schools is fraught with much individual-level turmoil and conflict....
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...Espeland (1998) was among the first to examine “recoupling” processes through which formal policies and daily activities move from being disconnected to being closely linked....
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...…debates whether rationality is “real,” in the sense of providing market benefits (e.g., Williamson 1975), or socially constructed (e.g., Meyer and Rowan 1977), our study suggests that socially constructed rationality may over time produce market benefits as courts recognize and legitimate…...
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...Further, these accounts hold that organizational behavior is largely given by “rational myths” or belief systems that embody stories about cause and effect and successful solutions to problems (Meyer and Rowan 1977; Zucker 1977, 1988)....
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...The institutional literature, however, would attribute the evolution of EEO grievance procedures to the construction of rational myths or stories about the rationality about these procedures (Meyer and Rowan 1977; Scott and Meyer 1983; DiMaggio and Powell 1983)....
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...Institutional theories challenge the notion of an objective rationality, arguing that concepts of rationality are socially constructed by nonmarket factors such as widely accepted norms and patterns of behavior (Meyer and Rowan 1977; DiMaggio and Powell 1983; Scott 1983; Powell and DiMaggio 1991)....
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