Scrutiny, norms, and selective disclosure: A global study of greenwashing

C Marquis, MW Toffel, Y Zhou - Organization Science, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose
relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true …

Board gender quotas: Exploring ethical tensions from a multi-theoretical perspective

S Terjesen, R Sealy - Business Ethics Quarterly, 2016 - cambridge.org
Despite 40 years of equal opportunities policies and more than two decades of government
and organization initiatives aimed at helping women reach the upper echelons of the …

The grammar of decoupling: A cognitive-linguistic perspective on firms' sustainability claims and stakeholders' interpretation

D Crilly, M Hansen, M Zollo - Academy of Management Journal, 2016 - journals.aom.org
Can firms deceive their stakeholders, by failing to deliver on their commitments to undertake
sustainability practices without being detected? Extant theory posits that, due to information …

Converging winds: Logic hybridization in the Colorado wind energy field

JG York, TJ Hargrave, DF Pacheco - Academy of Management …, 2016 - journals.aom.org
This study explores the hybridization of field-level logics, a process that integrates previously
incompatible logics within an organizational field. Through an inductive study of the wind …

Deconstructing complexity: Configurations of institutional complexity and structural hybridity

M Raynard - Strategic Organization, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This article unpacks the notion of institutional complexity and highlights the distinct sets of
challenges confronting hybrid structural arrangements. The framework identifies three …

State capacity, minority shareholder protections, and stock market development

MF Guillén, L Capron - Administrative Science Quarterly, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
We investigate how state capacity—the administrative ability to formulate and implement
policy—affects the institutional adoption of new policies and the decoupling of those policies …

Business school legitimacy and the challenge of sustainability: A fuzzy set analysis of institutional decoupling

A Snelson-Powell, J Grosvold… - Academy of Management …, 2016 - journals.aom.org
Business schools face growing institutional pressure to respond to the sustainability agenda,
especially since the financial crisis highlighted the need to educate business leaders who …

The two publics and institutional theory–A study of public sector accounting in Tanzania

A Goddard, M Assad, S Issa, J Malagila… - Critical Perspectives on …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Laying a smoke screen: Ambiguity and neutralization as strategic responses to intra-institutional complexity

RE Meyer, MA Höllerer - Strategic Organization, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Our research contributes to knowledge on strategic organizational responses by addressing
a specific type of institutional complexity that has, to date, been rather neglected in scholarly …

Beyond decoupling: Unions and the leveraging of corporate social responsibility in Indonesia

T Bartley, N Egels-Zandén - Socio-Economic Review, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Scholars often rely on static and distant images of 'decoupling'to describe the limited
influence of 'corporate social responsibility'(CSR), among other organizational and global …