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Organizational Institutionalism

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Synonyms

Diffusion; Institutional logics; Institutional work; Isomorphism; Organizational fields

Definition

Organizational institutionalism refers to a broad field within institutional scholarship that seeks to understand how organizations and institutions interact to conform to legitimate rules or the extent to which organizations effect changes within these institutional arrangements

Introduction

The field of organizational institutionalism has become highly dynamic and begins to show similar strains encountered in other fields of organizational and institutional studies as they mature and expand beyond their initial theoretical suppositions (Greenwood et al. 2008). Organizational institutionalism refers to a broad field within institutional scholarship that seeks to understand how organizations and institutions interact to conform to legitimate rules and the extent to which organizations effect changes within these institutional arrangements, in other words, how organizations adapt...

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  1. Department of Political Science, University of Arkansas, 428 Old Main, 72701, Fayetteville, AR, USA

    Margaret F. Reid

  2. Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Arkansas, 211 Old Main, 72701, Fayetteville, AR, USA

    Song Yang

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    Ali Farazmand

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Reid, M.F., Yang, S. (2016). Organizational Institutionalism. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_91-1

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