The essential impact of context on organizational behavior
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The impact of context, defined as situational opportunities and constraints that affect the occurrence and meaning of organizational behavior as well as functional relationships between variables is studied. It is found that there is a tendency for organizational culture researchers to ignore industrial macrocultures and hence context effects are underappreciated, though hopefully a new trend is set, which signals a more sophisticated treatment of context in organizational research.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0363-7425
Year: 2006
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Why do firms imitate each other?
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The two broad categories of information and rivalry based theories, where firms follow others that are perceived as having superior information and where they imitate others to maintain competitive parity or limit rivalry are organized and the conditions under which each type of imitation is most likely to happen is studied. The amplification properties that make outcomes more extreme and both the potential benefits and negative impacts of imitation are put forth.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0363-7425
Year: 2006
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Institutional theory, language and discourse analysis: A comment on Phillips, Lawrence, and Hardy
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The core elements of the thesis on the neglect of language and the inadequate treatment of power in institutional theory, motivated by strong support for the identification of language's critical role in institutionalization are discussed. The critique of the limitations of institutional theory is welcomed, but the shortcomings of casual and inconsistent attentiveness in the formulation and application of the diagnosis are identified.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0363-7425
Year: 2006
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