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Ontology, Levels of Society, and Degrees of Generality: Theorizing Actors as Abstractions in Institutional Theory

, 2020
The term “actor” is a central yet contested construct in institutional theory. Regardless of one’s position, institutional theory requires a scaffolding that acknowledges the novelty and diversity ...
H. Hwang, Jeannette A. Colyvas
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SMEs and institutional theory: major inroads and opportunities ahead

Management Decision
PurposeThe present paper offers a literature review on the application of institutional theory in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Marco Balzano   +2 more
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Theorizing the ‘I’ in Institutional Theory

, 2020
Recent critiques of organizational institutionalism have pointed to its increasing loss of focus and coherence. Yet, this criticism has not affected ongoing efforts to integrate insights from the literature on identity and organizations into ...
Jaco Lok
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Can institutional theory be refuted, replaced or modified?

, 2020
This paper aims to demonstrating that the former new institutional theory of isomorphism and decoupling cannot be extended, modified or refuted as it is a closed theory.
Herman Aksom, O. Zhylinska, T. Gaidai
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Institutional Theory and Environmental Pressures: The Moderating Effect of Market Uncertainty on Innovation and Firm Performance

IEEE transactions on engineering management, 2018
Although considerable research has investigated the influence of institutional pressures on environmental practices, few studies have examined its impact on innovation among third-party logistics (3PL) providers.
Zhaofang Chu   +3 more
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Economic theory and institutions

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2021
Abstract Economic theory and institutional approaches lack a close connection. Efforts to develop an analysis of institutions within a neo-classical framework have shown serious limitations. A stronger relationship could be developed with classical and post-Keynesian economics, that provides the conditions for developing a unified theoretical ...
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Institutional Theory

2007
The chapter presents a institutional theory. Institutional theory, a building block of today’s organization studies, drawing from sociology, social psychology, political science, and economics, offers explanations for social order, social action and cultural persistence.
Alan D. Morrison, William J. Wilhelm Jr.
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Between Legitimacy and Efficiency: An Institutional Theory of Corporate Giving

Academy of Management Journal, 2019
This study explores the cost of legitimacy management in the context of corporate giving. Specifically, how much does an organization spend in order to manage external legitimacy?
Young-Chul Jeong, Tai-Young Kim
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Theories of Institutions

2022
The human condition teems with institutions – intertemporal social arrangements that shape human relations in support of particular values – and the social scientific work developed over the last five decades aimed at understanding them is similarly vast and diverse.
Joseph Jupille, James A. Caporaso
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