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The Interrelationships among Informal Institutions, Formal Institutions, and Inward Foreign Direct Investment
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In this article, the influence of informal institutions on formal institutions and the effects of formal institutions on inward foreign direct investment was examined by integrating prior research from multiple disciplines to identify and examine the roles of a country's formal regulatory, political, and economic institutions.About:
This article is published in Journal of Management.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 409 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreign direct investment & Institutional theory.read more
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, 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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Comparative and International Corporate Governance
Ruth V. Aguilera,Gregory Jackson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the state of the art in comparative and international corporate governance by identifying the key research questions, main concepts, and paradigms of explanations of cross-country diversity in corporate governance.
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Resource based theory in operations management research
TL;DR: It is suggested that further application of RBT can add richness in operations management research, and has the potential to produce multiple contributions for this field and adjacent fields.
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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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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
TL;DR: Douglass C. North as discussed by the authors developed an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time.
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Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance
Douglass C. North,John Alt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role that institutions, defined as the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction, play in economic performance and how those institutions change and how a model of dynamic institutions explains the differential performance of economies through time.
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
John W. Meyer,Brian Rowan +1 more
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...