In this research, the authors propose a contagion effect of social media use across business suppliers, retailers, and consumers. After developing and validating social media usage …
Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness …
A Tilcsik, C Marquis - Administrative Science Quarterly, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
This article focuses on geographic communities as fields in which human-made and natural events occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop an institutional …
In this study, we explore institutional forces affecting environmental sustainability in professional sport teams and leagues in North America. Interviews with sport executives and …
B Brenner, B Ambos - Organization Science, 2013 - pubsonline.informs.org
The control and coordination of a network of geographically and culturally dispersed subsidiaries is one of the most prominent challenges in international management …
O Jaquette - Research in higher education, 2013 - Springer
This paper analyzes mission drift in baccalaureate colleges.“Becoming a university,” defined as a change in organizational name (eg, Aurora College becomes Aurora University) …
MA Glynn, R Raffaelli - Institutional logics in action, part B, 2013 - emerald.com
The institutional logics perspective highlights how organizations are embedded within broader systems of meaning and how this embeddedness activates salient institutional …
Institutional theory contends firms imitate other firms with ideal traits, whereas the strategic groups literature on imitation suggests firms imitate similar firms. We address this debate by …