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Organizational Fields Past, Present and Future
(2016-01)
The central construct of neo- institutional theory has been the organizational field. Strictly speaking, the field is ‘a community of organizations that partakes of a common meaning system and whose participants interact ...
Hybrid Organizations as Agents of Positive Social Change: Bridging the For-profit & Non-profit Divide
(2010-10)
This chapter explores the distinctive characteristics of hybrid organizations; a new organizational form that expands our existing categories of organizations by bridging the for-profit and non-profit domains. In particular, ...
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Building Research Through Tensions and Paradoxes
(2016-02)
The focus of institutional theory is directed towards an understanding of situations where context is strong and binding, yet subtly experienced; where agency is often diffuse, embodied in an arrangement or system of actors ...
Climate Change in the Era of the Anthropocene - an Institutional Analysis
(2015-06)
Recently, many geoscientists have re-conceptualized and re-labelled our current Holocene Era as “the Anthropocene,” a less stable era with biophysical characteristics and processes strongly influenced by human activity. ...
Organizational and leadership virtues and the role of forgiveness
(2003)
The investigation of virtues in organizational life has been neglected. Systematic studies of the development and demonstration of virtue have been all but absent in the organizational sciences. This article highlights ...