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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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Cyril Bouquet,Julian Birkinshaw +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a conceptual integration and synthesis of the literature on power and influence in multinational corporations (MNCs), focusing on the situation facing, and the strategies pursued by, low-power actors within the MNC network, that is, actors who are currently positioned in relatively weak or low status positions vis-a-vis other actors.
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A Framework for Assessing Power in Collaborative Governance Processes
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Corporate Incentives to Disclose Carbon Information: Evidence from the CDP Global 500 Report
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how the Global 500 companies respond to the challenge of climate change with regard to their carbon disclosure strategies and find that economic pressure is significantly associated with the decision.
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Here a Chief, There a Chief: The Rise of the CFO in the American Firm:
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