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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