Zusammenfassung Der organisationssoziologische Beitrag von Paul J. DiMaggio und
Walter W. Powell, die an den Universitäten Princeton und Stanford forschen und lehren …

CHARLENE ZIETSMA AND BRENT MCKNIGHT unique contribution of institutional theory is
the insight that organizations need legitimacy as well as technical efficiency to survive and …

In chapter 6 (a) Professor Weick has argued that enactment is a “roomy framework” that
reminds people of a central fact of organizational life:“people often produce part of the …

This seems an opportune time to reflect on our paper, The Iron Cage Revisited, some 40
years after its original publication. In this essay, we recall the influences on us at the time …

The concept of institution has been used by scholars from across a number of disciplines to
explain a wide variety of phenomena. However, the philosophical roots of this concept have …

Few papers achieve the success of DiMaggio and Powell's 1983 “The Iron Cage Revisited:
Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields.” The impact of …

Various forms of critical theory have been suggested to illuminate social practices. Versions
of such theories has been promoted for the analysis of management, organizations and …

This paper argues that research in organization theory has seen a shift in orientation from
paradigm-driven work to problem-driven work since the late 1980s. A number of paradigms …

Organization theorists are mesmerized by various forms of a segmentation thesis. Selznick
(1948, 1966), for example, differentiated between formal and informal systems. Dalton …