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Institutional Environments and Organizations
Structural Complexity and Individualism

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Organizational Theory
334 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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The institutional theory of organizations developed by Scott, Meyer and their colleagues over the past two decades has had an enormous impact on organizational theory and research. In this book, the editors review the major theoretical advances of the past decade and the empirical testing they have done on these theories. Their work has highlighted two key themes: the interrelationship between organizational complexity and the institutional environment; and the place of the individual within the organization.
 
PART ONE: DEVELOPMENTS IN INSTITUTIONAL THEORY
John W Meyer, John Boli and George M Thomas
Ontology and Rationalization in the Western Cultural Account
John W Meyer
Rationalized Environments
W Richard Scott
Institutions and Organizations
Toward a Theoretical Synthesis

 
W Richard Scott
Institutional Analysis
Variance and Process Theory Approaches

 
David Strang and John W Meyer
Institutional Conditions for Diffusion
 
PART TWO: INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY
John W Meyer
Social Environments and Organizational Accounting
W Richard Scott and John W Meyer
Environmental Linkages and Organizational Complexity
Public and Private Schools

 
John W Meyer, W Richard Scott and David Strang
Centralization, Fragmentation, and School District Complexity
John W Meyer et al
Bureaucratization Without Centralization
Changes in the Organizational System of US Public Education, 1940 - 1980

 
 
PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND THE EXPANSION OF INDIVIDUALITY WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS
John W Meyer
Institutional and Organizational Rationalization in the Mental Health System
W Richard Scott and John W Meyer
The Rise of Training Programs in Firms and Agencies
An Institutional Perspective

 
Susanne C Monahan, John W Meyer and Richard W Scott
Employee Training
The Expansion of Organizational Citizenship

 
Frank R Dobbin et al
Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets

William Richard Scott

W. Richard (Dick) Scott received his PhD from the University of Chicago and is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology with courtesy appointments in the Graduate School of Business, Graduate School of Education, and School of Medicine at Stanford University. He has spent his entire professional career at Stanford, serving as chair of the Sociology Department (1972–1975), as director of the Training Program on Organizations and Mental Health (1972–1989), and as director of the Stanford Center for Organizations Research (1988–1996). Scott is an organizational sociologist who has concentrated his work on the study of... More About Author

John W. Meyer