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Institutional Strategy

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Title
Institutional Strategy
Abstract/Description
The ability of organizations to strategically influence their environments has become a central concern in organizational research. In this article, I develop the concept of ‘institutional strategy’ to describe patterns of organizational action that are directed toward managing the institutional structures within which firms compete for resources, either through the reproduction or transformation of those structures. Drawing on a study of the Canadian forensic accounting industry, I describe two types of institutional strategy: (1) membership strategies that involve the definition of rules of membership and their meaning for an institutional community; and (2) standardization strategies that are concerned with the establishment of technical legal or market standards that define the "normal" processes involved in the production of some good or service.
Author/creator
Lawrence, Thomas B.
Date
1999
In publication
Journal of Management
Volume
25
Issue
2
Pages
161-187
Resource type
en Background/Context
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
Language
en
ISSN
0149-2063
DOI
10.1177/014920639902500203
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE)
Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
Citation
Lawrence, T. B. (1999). Institutional Strategy. Journal of Management, 25(2), 161–187. https://doi.org/10.1177/014920639902500203
Cited in
Conclusion: Building the Field of Improvement Research in Education
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Theoretical
en Empirical
Abbreviation
Journal of Management
Item sets
Handbook Conclusion Citations

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