Institutional Theory
Can It? On Expanding Institutional Theory by Disarming Critique
... impact institutional theorists increasingly desire to make though their work, because it could undermine its authority in, for example, the public policy realm by exposing how institutional theory is ...
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Exploring CRM effectiveness: an institutional theory perspective
... While institutional theory is usually used as a theoretical framework for explaining the adoption of practices (Heugens and Lander 2009; Westphal et ...that institutional processes are also an ...
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Performative Work: Bridging Performativity and Institutional Theory in the Responsible Investment Field
... the theory has also met with resistance: academic critics in institutional theory and elsewhere have faulted performativity for ignoring the organizational, institutional, and political ...
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The combination of Institutional theory and cultural dimensions' theory in HRM practices implementation. Case studies of Finnish companies in Russia.
... the institutional theory proved their existence in the transfer of HRM practices towards the overseas ...the institutional environment were closely related to the cultural concept of value (from the ...
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Neo-Institutional Theory and Organization Studies: A Mid-Life Crisis?
... of institutional theory suggest new topics need to be ...institution theory perspective: micro level processes, struggles over legitimacy, the moral element of institutions and material ...
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Tax morale and institutional theory: a systematic review
... the institutional theory (Baumol and Blinder, 2008; Helmke and Levitsky, 2004; North, 1990), tax morale has been viewed in this paper primarily to result from the interaction between formal and informal ...
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An institutional theory of informal entrepreneurship: some lessons from FYR Macedonia
... To explain this, a “social actor” approach has emerged , which views entrepreneurs as more likely to participate in the informal sector if they possess low tax morale, by which is meant a low intrinsic motivation to pay ...
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Exploring Users’ Adoption of MOOCs from the Perspective of the Institutional theory
... Abstract: MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses, have attracted millions of users around the world and it has a promise to be a very important part of future education. However, there is little research on ...
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The two publics and institutional theory – a study of public sector accounting in Tanzania
... This paper summarises, and attempts to theorise, the findings of a series of research projects investigating accounting practices across the public sector in Tanzania. Data was collected principally by interviewing ...
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The franchise relationship in China : agency and institutional theory perspectives
... that institutional theory can provide social explanations for ...the institutional framework is still ...agency theory (in the context of vertical agency) in a market environment outside which ...
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Some Issues In The Institutional Theory: A Critical Analysis
... sociological theory was not easily operationalized-able or efforts to verify theoretical claims, as witnessed by the still- ongoing debates over how to define and measure 'class' ...institutions, ...
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Embedded Agency in Institutional Theory: Problem or Paradox
... in Institutional Theory” Professor Cardinale (2018) seeks to expose and correct “shortcomings” ...in institutional theory’s conceptualization of structure, agency and their ...that ...
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Italian municipalities' NPFM reforms: an institutional theory perspective
... Empirical studies conducted so far revealed discrepancies between actual and formal accounting changes but they didn’t focus on the reasons for this gap. Furthermore these researches only analysed some aspects of the ...
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A Framework Based On Institutional Theory To Aid In Cyber Resiliency In County Governments Of Kenya
... Abstract: Cyber resiliency is the ability of a system to anticipate, withstand, recover and evolve when a cyberattack has occurred in an organization or institution. Poor IT habits still persist in institutions exposing ...
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Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intention: Perspectives on Institutional Theory
... the institutional environment can vary in other countries which can have an impact on EE in new venture ...that institutional environments in a country can be classified into three dimensions: regulato- ry, ...
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Extending New Institutional Theory: Regulation and Activity- Based Costing in Portuguese Telecommunications*
... This paper investigates why a Portuguese telecommunications firm adopted activity-based costing (ABC). Theoretically it draws from New Institutional Sociology. An intensive, holistic case study revealed that ABC ...
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The three pillars of institutional theory and IFRS implementation in Nigeria
... some institutional actors are likely to benefit while other actors may be ...among institutional actors as some actors suffer a loss of self-regulatory power in comparison to other ...of ...
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The venture capital contract and the Institutional Theory in a Spanish setting
... the Institutional Theory is the most formal institution, and refers to exogenous pressures exerted on one organization by another in which the first one is dependent (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983; Scott, ...
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How Espoused Culture Influences Misuse Intention: A Micro-Institutional Theory Perspective
... studied institutional influences at the organizational ...However, institutional pressures could also affect individual ...Neo- institutional theory “forgot” about the individuals that enact ...
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Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory: explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan
... how institutional theory has sought to explain informal sector entrepreneurship and following this, and in order to further advance institutional theory, how there has been a growing ...
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