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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
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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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Pace, rhythm, and scope: process dependence in building a profitable multinational corporation
Freek Vermeulen,Harry G. Barkema +1 more
TL;DR: This paper argued that the speed of internationalization, the spread of the geographical and product markets entered, and the irregularity of the expansion pattern negatively moderate a firm's increase in profitability resulting from international expansion.
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Modeling internal organizational change
TL;DR: Theories and analyses of organizational change seek to explain why organizations change as well as what the consequences are of change as discussed by the authors, but empirical evidence on both questions is fragmentary and occasionally contradictory.
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Codes of Good Governance Worldwide: What is the Trigger?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine why and how corporate governance practices are implemented across countries and find that codes of good governance serve to compensate for deficiencies in the legal system covering shareholders' rights.
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Institutional Sources of Practice Variation: Staffing College and University Recycling Programs
TL;DR: This article examined how variation arises in the staffing of recycling programs at colleges and universities and identified two basic recycling program forms: full-time recycling manager positions that were filled by ecological activists and minimalist programs that were staffed by current employees who were more ecologically ambivalent and assumed recycling management responsibilities as a part-time, additional duty.