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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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Environmental Management Systems and Green Supply Chain Management: Complements for Sustainability?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the relationship between EMS and GSCM practices and find that EMS adopters may have a greater propensity to expand their focus beyond their organizational boundaries and utilize GCCM practices to minimize system-wide environmental impacts.
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Project-Based Organizations, Embeddedness and Repositories of Knowledge: Editorial
TL;DR: Project-based organizations as mentioned in this paper are an organizational form that involves the creation of temporary systems for the performance of project tasks (Lundin and Soderholm 1995; DeFillippi 2002).
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Resources, Knowledge and Influence: The Organizational Effects of Interorganizational Collaboration*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a qualitative study that examines the relationship between the effects of interorganizational collaboration and the nature of the collaborations that produce them, based on the collaborative activities of a small, nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Palestine over a four-year period.
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Miller (1983) Revisited: A Reflection on EO Research and Some Suggestions for the Future:
TL;DR: A review of the literature on entrepreneurial orientation can be found in this article, where the authors argue the importance of linking EO to current theories in strategy, organization theory, and economics.
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Attention as the Mediator Between Top Management Team Characteristics and Strategic Change: The Case of Airline Deregulation
TL;DR: Light is shed on the transformation of industry attention patterns following an environmental shift, and the role of TMT composition and incentive systems in that process is shed.