Presenting structural innovation in an institutional environment: Hospitals' use of impression management
Presenting structural innovation in an institutional environment: Hospitals' use of impression management
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DOI：
10.2307/2667107
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发表时间：
2000-09-01
影响因子：
10.4
通讯作者：
Bigelow, B
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作者：
Arndt, M;Bigelow, B
本研究探讨了第一个组织如何放弃一个制度化的，想当然的结构，并采取了根本不同的形式提出了创新的重要利益相关者。对医院年度报告的内容分析表明，在其他方面存在差异的组织在宣布向多元化企业结构转变时，一致预防性地使用了防御性印象管理。这些组织援引强制性和模仿性的压力来解释和证明新的结构，并将创新与合法的组织活动联系起来。研究结果作出了两个贡献，连接“旧”制度主义和新制度主义：他们指出，组织机构在预防性使用的制度力量，创造同构，并建议存在的制度力量，即使在创新的早期阶段。
This research examines how the first organizations to abandon an institutionalized, taken-for-granted structure and adopt a radically different form presented the innovation to important stakeholders. A content analysis of hospitals' annual reports reveals that organizations that differed on other dimensions uniformly made preventive use of defensive impression management in announcing the change to a diversified corporate structure. The organizations invoked coercive and mimetic pressures to account for and justify the new structure, and they associated the innovation with legitimated organizational activities. The findings make two contributions that link the "old" institutionalism and neoinstitutionalism: they point to organizational agency in the preventive use of the very institutional forces that create isomorphism and suggest the presence of institutional forces even during the early stages of innovation.