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Resource dependence theory

About: Resource dependence theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2732 publications have been published within this topic receiving 184871 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend the analysis to a public-sector firm where its major purpose includes engaging in public good by giving away its knowledge base and services, and they find it necessary to incorporate resource dependency theory to address the paradox.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a positive relationship between minority participation and alternative conformity is found, and that relationship is attenuated by organizations' adherence to a dominant logic, the centrality of minority logic holders and a minority logic's institutional credit.
Abstract: To what extent do organizations respond favorably to minority participation-that is, conform to demands from minority resource suppliers that hold an unconventional logic? A favorable response to minority participation (i.e., "alternative conformity") helps decrease the influence of dominant players, alter the resource suppliers' social structure, and promote new logics, which makes alternative conformity a "son control strategy" for organizations. We expect a positive relationship between minority participation and alternative conformity and expect that relationship to be attenuated by organizations' adherence to a dominant logic, the centrality of minority logic holders, and a minority logic's institutional credit. We test and find strong support for our hypotheses using original data on investment funds in the French film industry (1994-2008).

74 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a resource dependence framework for policy networks is developed, where the deployment of the Internet is conceptualized as an exogenous shock where the shock alters the material resource base of a policy network and allows actors inside and outside the network to challenge structural power holders.
Abstract: Although many policy and political scientists have studied the Internet’s role in electoral and organizational processes, there is little work that examines the Internet’s effect on policy processes. Has the Internet tended to make policy deliberations more inclusive? Has it affected patterns of influence reputation among network participants? Has the Internet helped to bring new organizations into policy debates? This study provides preliminary answers to these questions. Treating policy networks as a type of interorganizational network, a ‘‘socialized’’ resource dependence framework is developed. Deployment of the Internet is conceptualized as an exogenous shock, where the shock alters the material resource base of a policy network and allows actors inside and outside the network to challenge structural power holders. Structural power holders attempt to ‘‘mold’’ use of the Internet to protect their position and its perquisites. To test this framework data were collected from two policy networks in ‘‘Newstatia’’—one focused on adult basic education policy and the other on mental health policy. Both policy networks appear to have become more exclusive since the deployment of the Internet. Electronic central discussion networks (or ‘‘cores’’) were primarily populated by actors who were already entrenched in positions of structural power within the network and possessed very high influence ratings. Most Internet communication occurs between members of the electronic core. At least preliminarily, the Internet appears to reinforce existing patterns of authority and influence.

74 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the adoption of subsidy conditions by sport clubs in relation to their dependence on government funding, and show that sport clubs display a variety of resources, and there is a relationship between the share of governmental subsidies in the total income of sport clubs and their adoption of subsidies.
Abstract: This contribution aims to analyse the adoption of subsidy conditions by voluntary sport clubs in relation to their dependence on government funding. Using a sociological neo-institutional approach based upon Pfeffer and Salancik’s (1978) resource dependence theory and DiMaggio and Powell’s (1983) concept of coercive isomorphism, this paper analyses the possible use of sport clubs by governments as instruments of sport policy. Data for these analyses are drawn from the Flemish Sport Club Panel 2009 and the Flemish Local Sport Authorities Panel 2010. The results show that sport clubs display a variety of resources. Although subsidies from the local government are relevant resources for the majority of voluntary sport clubs, the significance of these subsidies in the overall budgets is limited. Nevertheless, the outcomes of a multinomial logistic regression model indicate that there is a relationship between the share of governmental subsidies in the total income of sport clubs and their adoption of ...

73 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the challenges posed by incompatible institutional logics of partners could be mitigated by the degree of resource interdependence between organizations, and discuss implications of organizations' responses to keep acting under or reinterpreting existing logics in asymmetrical cross-sector relationships.
Abstract: Drawing on and extending institutional logics and resource dependence theories, this paper posits that for cross-sector partnerships to survive, organizations need to share compatible institutional logics, but depend less on each other's resources. Asymmetrical cross-sector partnerships may lead to a breakup if organizations are forced to operate under incompatible institutional logics. The findings of this study show that the challenges posed by incompatible logics of partners could be mitigated by the degree of resource interdependence between organizations. Capturing the effects of context and transactions on the actors’ strategic behaviour, the findings, based on a dataset of project-level partnership ties between 1312 organizations in the carbon-offset market, support these hypotheses. The paper concludes by discussing implications of organizations' responses to keep acting under or reinterpreting existing institutional logics in asymmetrical cross-sector relationships.

73 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202347
2022105
2021173
2020140
2019156
2018159