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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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Intercollegiate Athletics Success and the Financial Impact on Universities
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A typology for exploring the quality of explanations for non-compliance with UK corporate governance regulations
Philip Shrives,Niamh Brennan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a typology to assess the quality of corporate governance explanations for non-compliance of UK FTSE 350 companies based on seven quality characteristics, including location, complexity and specificity of explanations.
Innovation in soccer clubs : the case of Sweden
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Job satisfaction and intent to quit as outcomes among home health aides in home health care industry of the United States: A multilevel study
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International project teams as innovation hubs: power and politics in the knowledge change process
TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal multi-case study has been designed to collect in-depth qualitative data from three large-scale international projects conducted by a focal MNE and an array of its subsidiaries, and a model describing the mechanisms that enable international project teams to drive knowledge diversity and political activity towards innovation and knowledge change within MNEs was developed.
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Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of who and What Really Counts
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Strategic responses to institutional processes
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Corporate Social and Financial Performance: A Meta-Analysis
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Structural Inertia and Organizational Change
Michael T. Hannan,John Freeman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider structural inertia in organizational populations as an outcome of an ecological-evolutionary process and define structural inertia as a correspondence between a class of organizations and their environments.