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9780803956537

Institutions and Organizations

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  • ISBN13:

    9780803956537

  • ISBN10:

    0803956533

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-06-01
  • Publisher: Sage Pubns

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Summary

This concise overview of the institutionalist approach to organization theory provides an historical overview of theoretical literature, an integrative analysis of current institutional approaches, and a review of empirical research related to institutions and organizations.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction xiii
Early Institutionalists
1(15)
Early Institutional Theory in Economics
2(3)
Early Institutional Theory in Political Science
5(3)
Early Institutional Theory in Sociology
8(6)
Concluding Comment
14(2)
Institutional Theory and Organizations
16(17)
Early Applications to Organizations
16(8)
Neo-Institutional Theory and Organizations: Founding Conceptions
24(7)
Concluding Comment
31(2)
Contemporary Institutional Theory
33(30)
Varying Emphases: The Three Pillars of Institutions
34(18)
Varying Carriers
52(3)
Varying Levels of Analysis
55(5)
Concluding Comment
60(3)
Explaining Institutions: Empirical Reseach
63(29)
Creating and Changing Institutions
66(12)
Maintaining and Diffusing Institutions
78(11)
Concluding Comment
89(3)
Institutional Effects on Societal Systems, Organizational Fields, and Organizational Populations: Empirical Research
92(22)
Institutional Agents: The State and the Professions
93(3)
Effects on Societal Systems
96(6)
Effects on Organizational Fields
102(6)
Effects on Organizational Populations
108(4)
Concluding Comment
112(2)
Institutional Effects on Organizational Structure and Performance: Empirical Research
114(19)
Structural Effects of Instutitional Context
115(3)
Interaction Effects
118(6)
Collective Responses to Institutional Environments
124(4)
Responses by Individual Organizations
128(3)
Concluding Comment
131(2)
Accomplishments, Continuing Controversies, New Directions
133(20)
Accomplishments
133(3)
Continuing Controversies
136(7)
New Directions
143(8)
Concluding Comment
151(2)
References 153(19)
Index 172(5)
About the Author 177

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