The Institutional Construction of Organizations - Scott, W. Richard / Christensen, Soren (eds.)
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During the past three decades, organization studies have witnessed a succession of theoretical perspectives - contingency theory, resource dependency and population ecology - that focus on one or other aspect of organizations. Only institutional theory highlights the importance of the wider social and cultural environment as the `ground' in which organizations are rooted.
This book brings together original work from two different research traditions - continental Europe and the United States - to shed light on the study of organizations. This includes empirical…mehr

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Main description:
During the past three decades, organization studies have witnessed a succession of theoretical perspectives - contingency theory, resource dependency and population ecology - that focus on one or other aspect of organizations. Only institutional theory highlights the importance of the wider social and cultural environment as the `ground' in which organizations are rooted.

This book brings together original work from two different research traditions - continental Europe and the United States - to shed light on the study of organizations. This includes empirical observations, longitudinal analyses, market-based organizational forms, and the concepts of agency and strategy.

Table of contents:
Preface - W Richard Scott and Soacute;ren Christensen
Introduction - W Richard Scott
Institutional Theory and Organizations
PART ONE: ACCOUNTING FOR INSTITUTIONS
The New Institutionalism and Rational Choice Theory - Peter Abell
Cognitive Sources of Socially Constructed Competitive Groups - Theresa K Lant and Joel A C Baum
Examples from the Manhattan Hotel Industry
Localism and Globalization in Institutional Analysis - Mark C Suchman
The Emergence of Contractual Norms in Venture Finance
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATION TO CONFLICTING AND SHIFTING INSTITUTIONAL AND TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENTS
Origin and Transformation of Organizations - Soacute;ren Christensen and Jan Molin
Institutional Analysis of the Danish Red Cross
Civilization, Art, and Accounting - Jan Mouritsen and Peter Sk[ae]b[ae]k
The Royal Danish Theater - An Enterprise Straddling Two Institutions
The Incorporation of Multiple Institutional Models - Finn Borum and Ann Westenholz
Organizational Field Multiplicity and the Role of Actors
PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON FIRMS AND FIELDS
The Competence View of the Firm - Christian Knudsen
What Can Modern Economists Learn from Philip Selznick's Sociological Theory of Leadership?
Using Institutional Theory to Understand For-Profit Sectors - Stephen J Mezias
The Case of Financial Reporting Standards
PART FOUR: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON INDUSTRIES
Accounting for Acquisition Waves - Patricia H Thornton
Evidence from the US College Publishing Industry
Coupling the Technical and Institutional Faces of Janus in Network Industries - Raghu Garud and Arun Kumaraswamy
Institutional Interpretations and Explanations of Differences in American and Danish Approaches to Innovation - Peter Karn[o with a line through]e
The Origins of Economic Principles - Frank Dobbin
Railway Entrepreneurs and Public Policy in 19th-Century America
Conclusion - W Richard Scott and Soacute;ren Christensen
Crafting a Wider Lens
Autorenporträt
W. Richard (Dick) Scott (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology with courtesy appointments in the Graduate School of Business, School of Education, and School of Medicine, Stanford University. He has spent his entire professional career at Stanford and served as the founding director of the Stanford Center for Organizations Research. He is the author of many articles and more than a dozen scholarly books, including two widely used texts in the area of organizations: an early book, Formal Organizations (1962), coauthored with Peter M Blau, and the more recent volume, Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems (1981/1987/1992/1998), now in its 4th edition. Scott is a past fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was the recipient in 1988 of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Management and Organization Theory Division of the Academy of Management. In 1996, he received the Richard D. Irwin Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management from the Academy of Management.