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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
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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.Abstract:
What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative—leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and dependency, goal ambiguity and technical uncertainty, and professionalization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.read more
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Social and solidarity economy in pursuit of 'Buen Vivir' in the Andean highlands of Ecuador
TL;DR: In this paper, acknowledgements and a list of figures and tables are given for each of the following categories: acknowledgements, figures, tables, and acronyms.
Heterogeneity in Institutional Context and Its Impact on Initial Public Offerings and Corporate Social Responsibility
Abstract: This dissertation investigates the impact of institutional heterogeneity, which arises due to variations in institutional context, on a market and a non-market transaction. It draws from institutional theory and organizational institutionalism, and contributes to organization theory, corporate social responsibility, gender, and initial public offering literatures. In the two chapters that make up this dissertation, I theorize and empirically show that the institutional context varies not only between countries or groups of countries, but also domestically; and this variation has a statistically significant and economically meaningful impact on organizations. In the first chapter of this dissertation I focus on a market transaction, initial public offerings (IPO), and show that a change in institutional context leads to a lower IPO performance due to high financial uncertainty; in the second chapter, the focus is on a non-market transaction, corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. This chapter theorizes and empirically shows that women in high executive roles as well as states that are governed by the Democratic Party lead to higher CSR activities, and state’s ‘color’ moderates the relationship between gender and CSR. HETEROGENEITY IN INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT AND ITS IMPACT ON INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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The Effect of Regional Financial Independence, Regional Financial Efficiency and Effectiveness of Regional Original Income on Capital Expenditure (Study in the Provincial Level Regional Government in Indonesia 2013-2017)
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of regional financial independence, regional financial efficiency, and effectiveness of regional original income (PAD) on capital expenditure in Indonesia was analyzed, and it was found that Regional Financial Independence had a negative and significant effect on Capital Expenditures.
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“Good” Governance and Policy Analysis: What of Institutions?
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of the waste subsystems in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom reveals that each subsystem is the product of its own institutional landscape, and not directly and immediately subject to the whims of policy making at the EU scale of governance.
Research in a development setting: Ethical concerns during fieldwork in Tanzania
TL;DR: The issues of fieldwork, vulnerable groups, power relations and sensitive research are discussed, it is concluded that all research ought to have a high ethical standard no matter what the geographical location is, but perhaps this results in a greater responsibility for the researcher conducting research in a foreign setting.
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