Institutional Theory - Science topic

No, I wouldn't see it as synonymous. In my view, institutional theory should be seen at a higher level of abstraction than organizational theory. Best regards, Christian Pirker

I would recommend reading the following article:

- Min-Dong Paul Lee (2011) Configuration of External Influences: The Combined Effects of Institutions and Stakeholders on Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 102, pp.281–298.

DOI 10.1007/s10551-011-0814-0

Dear Dr. Saikia!

You raised a relevant topic to consider. I think you refer to the concept of rules:

1) Brady, M. Covid-19 and the power of rules. HPLS 43, 11 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00368-9 Free access:

2) Bo Yan, Bin Chen, Long Wu, Xiaomin Zhang & Heng Zhu (2021) Culture, Institution, and COVID-19 First-Response Policy: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Thirty-One Countries, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 23:2, 219-233, DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1878458 Free access:

Rules link together culture, cognitive signals with informal institutions.

Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely

Yannick - I think your aim shouldn't be to modify an existing theory to fit into your research. For your PhD research you need a theoretical framework relevant to your area of study and its applicability to your area of research. Theories are helpful to explain, predict, and understand phenomena and, in many cases, to challenge and extend existing knowledge within the limits of critical bounding assumptions. A theoretical framework is important because it will allow you to conceptualize the study in a broader context (i.e., the field of knowledge) and connects the researcher to existing knowledge. Guided by a relevant theory, you are given a basis for your hypotheses and choice of research methods. It will also address questions of why and how. A theoretical framework specifies which key variables influence a phenomenon of interest and highlights the need to examine how those key variables might differ and under what circumstances.

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Hi, If you take respondents as CEO or top managers of the SMEs the personal factor of the decision maker influence the choice making in adoption of IFRS for SMEs. As per the question you posed that SEM to use. yes you can. I suggest that use exploratory study design.

I published several articles on institutional analysis of the evolution of land use planning. Most of them adopts the persepective of hold-up problem, a central issue in New Institutional Economics and incomplete contract literature. Please find attached one article on this topic in the West and another recent one on the evolution of urban planning in China.

My chapter ‘The Role of Political and Policy Studies in Higher Education Policy Research’ in the book Theory and Method in Higher Education Research DOI:10.1108/S2056-375220150000001002 deals with institutionalism

Yes. It can be.

You might need to apply Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework developed by Elinor Ostrom, a prominent scholar from Indiana University who was awarded Nobel Prize in economics in 2009. This framework will be very much useful to address complexity in institution-related issues.

The IAD Framewok was later expanded by Floriane Clement by adding more exogenous variables to incorporate political context and distribution of power amongst actors.

Kind regards

Salim

Hi Linda. It's such a well-established, but internally divergent and multi-disciplinary, body of literature now that starting with the foundations is probably the best way to go. DiMaggio and Powell's 1983 'The Iron Cage Revisited' is seminal. Suchman's 1995 paper - Suchman, M. (1995) Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches, The Academy of Management ReviewVol. 20, No. 3 pp. 571-610 - provides a good overview of the divergences between sociological and strategic conceptions of new institutionalism. Patricia Thornton and colleagues' work on institutional logics is also significant. I haven't read their 2012 book, The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure, and Process but I imagine it gives a good overview. Greenwood et al.'s Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism gives a good overview featuring contributions from many of the key writers. Within this, Powell and Colyvas' chapter on the Micro-Foundations of Institutional Theory opens up a relatively new vein of thinking about how institutionalism manifests at the micro-level. Good luck - it's very interesting but wide terrain to navigate!

Knowledgement in Brazil

Please let me know if these references/sites are useful to you:

1. Knowledge Management and e-Government in Brazil

unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/unpan/unpan025989.pdf

Knowledge Management and e-Government in Brazil Page 2 of 11 Introduction In a study much-cited in Brazil (OECD, 2003, p. 8), the Organization for Economic

2. Knowledge Management Analyst at Brazil - UNcareer

https://uncareer.net/vacancy/knowledge-management-analyst-114271

Knowledge management in UNDP is guided by a Knowledge Strategy that enables UNDP Brazil to share and leverage its knowledge and experience across government, private sector, civil society, UN agencies and other external partners.

4. The use of knowledge management practices by Brazilian

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1809203916310786

Regarding knowledge management, the review of knowledge management practices of Baskerville and Dulipovici (2006) was used, in addition to other articles which analyzed these practices and the relation of knowledge and firm performance (Audretsch & Keilbach, 2007; Bembenek & Piecuch, 2014; Bender & Fish, 2000; López-Nicolás & Meroño-Cerdán, 2011; Mills & Smith, 2011; Mosconi & Roy, …

5. Knowledge management consultants in Brazil - knoco.com

https://www.knoco.com/knoco-brazil.htm

Knoco Brazil Knoco in Brazil is headed by Fabio Batista, Brazilian citizen and resident in Brasília since 1977, and KM Manager at Summit Quality Systems Consultores Associados, a consultancy specialized in knowledge management, strategic planning and quality management.

Dennis

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Hey, Peter! If you find out how to measure their intensity or strength, please let me know! I'll keep on looking for it and following your question!

you need to read some papers/articles from Rick Feiock on institutional theory. he has many articles on it and he is quantitative guy used a lot of measures for it

Richard Feiock

What answers are you looking for with your question? Please allow me to speculate! Are you cntending that "selling public parkland to private individuals" perpetuates violence by replacing public access with private exclusion - which could lead to violence? Or What? You need to clarify your premises that underlie your question!

I am working on a thesis on institutional variations in mining in Latin America. Two processes that interest me are those of Diffusion and Interpretation to explain the mechanisms of variation. Could you help me with suggestions?

Thanking you so much for your valuable contributions.Because i am doing a  PhD research, we agreed with my supervisors to use three theories in combination.The theories are Agency theory to show how effective internal audit function aid in reducing monitoring costs,Institutional theory to show how internal audit contribute to organizational behaviour change to positive side to conform to society requirements and other stakeholders requirements and lastly,Communication theory to show how internal audit function help organization in disclosure of pertinent information in financial statements to meet varied stakeholders needs. I appreciate for your valuable time you use to make the contributions  to me.

Organisational legitimacy is generally considered to be a dichotomous phenomenon; either you have it, or you don't. However there are a few studies that operationalise legitimacy on a scale. See these studies:

Ruef, M., & Scott, W. R. (1998). A multidimensional model of organizational legitimacy: Hospital survival in changing institutional environments. Administrative Science Quarterly, 43(4), 877-904.

Deephouse, D. L. (1996). Does isomorphism legitimate? Academy of Management Journal, 39(4), 1024-1039.

See also this study:

Vergne, J. P. (2011). Toward a New Measure of Organizational Legitimacy: Method, Validation, and Illustration. Organizational Research Methods, 14(3), 484-502.

Dear Manuel,

Governance could indeed include various forms of institutional work, as actors through their actions and interactions create, maintain and disrupt institutional frameworks. Yet governance involves much more than institutional work, its also creates actors, their relations, their relations to institutional frameworks, organizations, subjects and objects it includes a whole range of discursive processes. Governance, understood as all those processes about collective-binding decision-making is thus a multi-dimensional process in which the evolution of institutional frameworks that are both a driver and an outcome of governance should be understood in relation to other elements and their interplay. 

In our book on Evolutionary Governance Theory we explore these elements and their interrelations into more detail. All chapter can be founds on researchgate.

Raoul

Hi Chiranjeewa,

There is great work on the standardization of Fair Trade through standards by Juliane Reinecke at Warwick. There are numerous lenses from which to explore how fairness is constructed through standards... whether the processes are negotiation, framing, or other mechanisms.

Hope that this helps.

Wes

Triangulation is usually considered to be a form of mixed methods research. It involves using a qualitative and quantitative method as independent ways of addressing the same research question to find out if the answers converge (i.e., in the same way that the sides of a triangle converge at the tip). The primary reason for using this approach is to increase the validity of your results, because different methods arrive at the same conclusion.

This is very different from the inductive approach that you would use with Grounded Theory. For that approach, the book I would recommend is Charmaz's Constructing Grounded Theory (2nd edition).

I think your general goal is quite coherent: first inductively coding your material as closely too the participants' own words as possible, and then comparing that coding system to a deductive framework based on existing theory.

As reasonable as this might be, I'm not aware of examples of anyone else following the same path. In terms of reporting your findings, you could create a table with 11 rows and 2 columns, where the cells that match existing theory have small amounts of text to explain the linkage, and then blank cells when your code categories do not match existing theory. The core of your Results section would then be to describe the innovative content that you have found.

As far as Ground Theory goes, you have certainly followed the recommendation of going from open (initial) coding into categorization. The strict use of in vivo codes is a bit unusual, but certainly understandable for your purposes. Beyond that, goal of comparing a set of categories (which is less than a theory) to preexisting theories is not a very good fit to GT. So I personally would say that you used GT methods in ways that would ultimately serve a different purpose.

Of course, you did not mention GT in your original post, and I'm not sure why you want to claim it. The problem being that many GT proponents have a tendency to argue over boundaries -- what is and is not acceptable as GT. Since your work is also compatible with Braun & Clarke's (2006) thematic analysis, I would recommend aligning yourself with that widely used approach to qualitative analysis.

Dear Erica:

It seems interlocking directorates rarely facilitate collusive activities! In many cases, the ownership-control structure affects performance both directly and in interaction with social ties.  Please take a look at the following recent research study:

In this study,Buch-Hansen (2014) suggested that interlocking directorates are mechanisms that have the potential to facilitate collusion! Taking a European perspective, and focusing on four different time periods, the author investigated the extent to which companies that are directly and indirectly connected via interlocking directorships simultaneously or subsequently collude.

Utilizing network analysis software, Buch-Hansen provided a new method for identifying the two forms of business ties and possible overlaps between them.  analysis is based on an original dataset of European Community cartel cases and data on interlocking directorates developed by others. The author concludes that very few examples are found of colluding companies that were previously directly or indirectly connected via interlocking directorates!

Hope this helps!

Nadeem

Perhaps the nonparametric single index model is useful for your problem. Search on google, and then you can find how to model your data. It is allowed to use data to decide a composite variable.

In our recent book 'Learning in Landscapes of practice: Boundaries identity and knowledgeability in practice based learning', myself, Etienne Wenger and colleagues give some thought to this question. Although we do not coin our arguments directly in terms of institutional logics, scholars of institutional theory will see immediate parallels with our consideration of the identity work and emotion work that goes on at the boundaries between practice communities and in the transformation of practices. Institutional logics are not just about what we do they are also about who we are and thus fundamentally about the very emotional business of identity regulation and identity work.

The affects of isomorphism on strategy implanting is not difficult to understand. Fist of all we must think when does isomorphism take place? Then, we must understand ecology approach for the organizations. Finally it will be clear for us to see the relation between strategies and strategy implanting alternatives.So we can say that, the causes which make the isomorfism occur effect the strategy implantation as a environmental factors do.

This publication on Research Gate talks about the concept of 'report wars' around controversial issues, in which proponents and opponents of certain developments use expert knowledge to create legitimacy. Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but maybe it can be a start. see: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228465647_By-passing_barriers_in_sustainable_knowledge_production?ev=auth_pub

Maybe you can start by reading the article Kathleen M Eisenhardt . The title is "Agency Theory: an assessment and review". Good luck.