The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
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What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organization emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes - coercive, mimetic, and normative - leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.
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DIMAGGIO, P. J.; POWELL, W. W. The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. RAE - Revista de Administracao de Empresas , [S. l.], v. 45, n. 2, p. 74–89, 2005. Disponível em: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rae/article/view/37123. Acesso em: 29 nov. 2023.
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