The New institutionalism in organizational analysis /

This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the institutional approach to organization analysis. This is required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of organizations; the volume should appeal to scholars co...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: J. Gregory Dees Memorial Collection
Other Authors: DiMaggio, Paul, Powell, Walter W
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991
Chicago : c1991
Chicago : ©1991
Chicago : c1991
Chicago : 1991
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell
  • Institutionalized organizations : formal structure as myth and ceremony / John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan
  • The iron cage revisited : institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organization fields / Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell
  • The role of institutionalization in cultural persistence / Lynne G. Zucker
  • The organization of societal sectors : propositions and early evidence / W. Richard Scott and John W. Meyer
  • Institutions, institutional effects, and institutionalism / Ronald L. Jepperson
  • Unpacking institutional arguments / W. Richard Scott
  • Expanding the scope of institutional analysis / Walter W. Powell
  • The public order and the construction of formal organizations / Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer
  • Bringing society back in : symbols, practices, and institutional contradictions / Roger Friedland and Robert R. Alford
  • Constructing an organizational field as a professional project : U.S. art museums, 1920-1940 / Paul J. DiMaggio
  • Making corporate actors accountable : institution-building in Minneapolis-St. Paul / Joseph Galaskiewicz
  • The structural transformation of American industry : an institutional account of the causes of diversification in the largest firms, 1919-1979 / Neil Fligstein
  • Institutional origins and transformations : the case of American community colleges / Steven Brint and Jerome Karabel
  • Organizational isomorphism in East Asia / Marco Orrù, Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G. Hamilton
  • Institutional change and ecological dynamics / Jitendra V. Singh, David J. Tucker and Agnes G. Meinhard