Institutional theory

Meyer, J. W. and Rowan, B. (1977). Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony. American Journal of Sociology. 83: 340-363.

DiMaggio, P. and Powell, W.W. 1983. “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields”. American Sociological Review 48: 147 – 160

March, J.G. and Olsen, J.P. 1998. The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders. International Organization. Vol.52, No 4. pp. 943-969

Dejlic and Sahlin-Andersson, K, 2006. A World of Governance – The Rise of Transnational Regulation, in Djelic, M-L., and Sahlin-Andersson, K. (eds.) 2006. Transnational Governance. Institutional Dynamics of Regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Institutional change

Hoffman, Andrew, 1999. “Institutional Evolution and Change: Environmentalism and the US Chemical Industry. The Academy of Management Journal. Vol. 42. No 4: 351 – 371.

Hedmo, T., Sahlin-Andersson, K. and Wedlin, L. 2006. “Fields of Imitation: The global expansion of management education” in Czarniawska, B. and Sevón G. (eds.), Global Ideas. Lund: Liber, 190-212.

Greenwood, R., Suddaby, R. and Hinings, C. R. 2002. “Theorizing Change: The Role of Professional Associations in the Transformation of Institutionalized Fields”, Academy of Management Journal 45: 58-80.

Finnemore, M. and K. Sikkink (1998). International Norm Dynamics and Political Change. International Organization, Cambridge University Press / UK. 52: 887-917.

Institutional entrepreneurs

Hwang, H. and W. Powell (2005). Institutions and Entrepreneurship. Handbook of Entrepreneurial Research. S. Alvarez, R. Agrawal and O. Sorenson, Kluwer Publishers.

Garud, R., Jain, S., and Kumaraswamy, A.. (2002). “Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Sponsorship of Common Technological Standards: The Case of Sun Microsystems and Java”, Academy of Management Journal

Organizational Change: Rational adaptation, Random Transformation, Population Ecology and others

Hannan, M. and Freeman, J. (1977). ”The Population Ecology of Organizations,” American Journal of Sociology, 82: 929-939.

March, J. (1981). “Footnotes on Organizational Change,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 26: 563-577.

Doz, Y. and Prahalad, C.K. (1987). “A Process Model of Strategic Redirection in Large Complex Firms: The Case of Multinational Corporations,” in A. Pettigrew (ed.) The Management of Strategic Change, Basil Blackwell.

Weick, K. and Quinn (1999). “Organizational Change and Development,” Annual Review of Psychology,  50: 361-386.

Sastry, A. (1997). “Problems and Paradoxes in a Model of Punctuated Organizational Change,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 42.

Technological Change

Tushman, M. and Rosenkopf, L. (1992) “Organizational Determinants of Technological Change: Toward a Sociology of Technological Evolution,” Research in Organizational Behavior.

Hughes, T. (1993). Networks of Power: Electrification of Western Society, 1880-1930 (extract). Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kogut, B. and Zander, U. (2000) “Did Socialism Fail to Innovate? A Natural Experiment of the Two Zeiss Companies,” American Sociological Review, 65 (2): 169-190.

Managing Change

Beer, M., Eisenstat R. and Spector, B. (1990). “Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change,” Harvard Business Review, Nov-Dec issue.

Schein, E. (1993). “How Can Organizations Learn Faster? The Challenge of Entering the Green Room,” Sloan Management Review, Winter issue.

Kotter, J. (1995). “Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail,” Harvard Business Review, March-April issue.

Pascale, R. and Sternin, A (2005). “Your Company’s Secret Change Agents” Harvard Business Review, May-June issue.

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