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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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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
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TL;DR: In response to critiques of strategy tools as unhelpful or potentially dangerous for organizations, a sociological eye is suggested on how tools are actually mobilized by strategy makers, offering a framework for examining the ways that the affordances of strategy tool and the agency of strategy makers interact to shape how and when tools are selected and applied.
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Understanding Institutional-based Trust Building Processes in Inter-organizational Relationships
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Corporate Governance and Performance in Socially Responsible Corporations: New Empirical Insights from a Neo‐Institutional Framework
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Accountability and the Promise of Performance: In Search of the Mechanisms
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