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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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A natural resource-based view of the firm
TL;DR: In this paper, a natural resource-based view of the firm is proposed, which is composed of three interconnected strategies: pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development, and each of these strategies are advanced for each of them regarding key resource requirements and their contributions to sustained competitive advantage.
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Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning
Peter J. Lane,Michael Lubatkin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reconceptualize the firm-level construct absorptive capacity as a learning dyad-level measure, relative absorptive capacities, and test the model using a sample of pharmaceutical-biotechnology R&D alliances.
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Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires
Jasjit Singh,Ajay Agrawal +1 more
TL;DR: This paper employs a difference-in-differences approach to compare premove versus postmove citation rates for the recruits' prior patents and corresponding matched-pair control patents and generates results that are robust to a more stringently matched control sample.
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The Government of Self-Regulation: On the Comparative Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility
Gond,Jeremy Moon,Nahee Kang +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship between CSR and government and highlight the varied role that the governments can play in order to promote CSR in the context of the wider national governance systems.
International business responses to institutional voids
TL;DR: A review and synthesis of existing research on institutional voids, tracking the evolution of institutional void scholarship since the inception of the concept, can be found in this article, where the authors highlight four different strategies for responding to them: internalization, substitution, borrowing and signaling.
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The Strength of a Weak State: The Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Divisions
Frank Dobbin,John Sutton +1 more
TL;DR: Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, federal policy has revolutionized employment rights as discussed by the authors and has been widely recognized as the basis for many of the advances in employment rights.
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Theoretical foundations for the study of sociomateriality
TL;DR: This paper compares two alternative theoretical foundations upon which the study of sociomateriality can be built: agential realism and critical realism.
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Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care
TL;DR: This book discusses current developments affecting interprofessional teamwork, as well as a conceptual framework for inter professional teamwork, and uses theory to better understand interProfessional teamwork.
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Universities-Industry Collaboration: A Systematic Review
Samuel Ankrah,Omar Al-Tabbaa +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed a systematic procedure to review the literature on universities-industry collaboration (UIC) and identified five key aspects, which underpinned the theory of UIC.
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Stacking the deck: the effects of top management backgrounds on investor decisions
Monica C. Higgins,Ranjay Gulati +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the top management team (TMT) of a firm can serve as a powerful signal to investors that can in turn enable a firm to gain legitimacy.