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Origin
1970s organizational literature
(Thick) Definition
Institutions as social structures composed of cultural-cognitive, normative, and regulative elements that provide stability and meaning to social life.
Focus
- Explaining isomorphism, i.e. the process of different organisations becoming more similar over time, and decoupling, i.e. the difference between formal policies and actual organizational practices
Puzzles
- Why do organisations become more similar over time (and not necessarily more
efficient)?
- organisations strive for legitimacy. Institutional pressures make organisations adopt the “rationalised myths” (design prescriptions) of their environments through coercive, mimetic, and normative pressures.
Resources
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