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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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Seeing like the IMF : institutional change in frontier economies / Andre Broome
Abstract: The International Monetar)' Fund is commonly seen as a promoter of 'one-size-fits-all' policies and as an agent for its dominant Western member states that is able to enforce their reform preferences in borrowing states. If so, then we should expect the Fund to have a decisive influence over 'frontier economies' that require its resources, but the Fund's programs often fail in these countries due to a lack of domestic political support. This thesis examines the process through which the Fund has attempted to persuade three Central Asian frontier economies to adopt its preferences for institutional change in the immediate post-communist transition. During the early-to-mid 1990s the Fund attempted to persuade the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan to transform their monetary and financial systems, including reforms to exchange rate regimes, central bank independence, and the marketization of domestic credit allocation. These reforms represent what would normally be considered 'IMF friendly' reforms, and conform to global trends. The process of reform is traced through policy dialogue recorded in Fund archival materials, as well as supplementary' inter\tiews in Central Asia and with Fund staff in Washington DC and Warsaw. The thesis puts forward the notion that 'seeing like the IMF' provides greater analytical leverage than approaches that assume the Fund seeks to enforce 'onc-size-fits-all' policies or which focus on political power struggles among the Fund's major shareholders. It suggests two factors not sufficiently highlighted in the literamre. The first is that 'seeing like the IMF' tells us that much of what the Fund works on day to day is fostering its capacities as an intellectual actor. The Fund knows it must persuade political leaders to act as bricoleurs to implement reforms while also being attuned to domestic sensitivities. The second factor is that the Fund markets itself as a reputational intermediary, by promoting economic reform programs it served to assist Central Asian states to learn about world markets and vice versa. The thesis suggests that seeing the Fund as an intellectual actor and a reputational intermediar)provides insights into the process of institutional change that are obscured by structural determinist explanations or constructivist understandings of change driven by actors operating in highly socialized contexts. In broader conceptual terms, the thesis suggests that frontier economies provide hard cases for the 'bridge-building' literature in international relations that seeks to identify scope conditions for actors to shift between a 'logic of appropriateness' and a 'logic of consequences'. In sum, the thesis argues that 'seeing like the IMF' provides an analytical insight into the micro-level dealings that support macro institutional reform.
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