... 08 2026 06 08 2026 07 08 2026 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Field admissibility Organisational fields Institutional theory Diffusion Infrastructure Affordances Organisational change Strategy Power...

... denominational similarities and differences observed in the data. Internal effectiveness drivers are empirically modelled as predictors of overall OE, while denominational context is examined descriptively to assess patterned variation. Accordingly, institutional theory informs interpretation without entering...

.... The detailed conceptual framework is based on institutional theory, particularly in the implementation of institutional theory principles, such as institutional pressures (coercive, normative or mimetic), which clearly impact workplace accommodations within organizations. Findings Based on the conceptual...

...Herman Aksom; Svitlana Firsova; Tetiana Bilorus; Lesya Olikh Purpose Institutional theory is focused on the prevalence of social value over economic imperatives in organizational life, but what happens when taken-for-granted practices offer neither technical nor institutional value at all...

...; and configuring. Innovation Institutional theory Qualitative methods Organizational Change Technological change Spatial Organizations face increasing challenges in the spatiality of the work environment. New technology allows opportunities for working outside the traditional single...

.... This is not a desirable situation. It can be counterproductive and draw attention to bureaucratic procedures. Originality/value This relation between opaqueness and institutional pressure for a group of organisations within the context of neo-institutional theory has not yet been verified empirically. This study’s...

... the ecological and ethical backdrop of institutions. Both these topics are as relevant (one could say more relevant) than they were during Mukherjee’s era. This brand of sociology and institutional theory has an integral character. It opens up avenues to explore the multifaceted nature of economic institutions...

... of entropy in the institutional theory is caused by conceptualizing it as a force that counteracts institutional tendencies and acts in opposite direction. Once institutionalization and homogeneity are seen as a product of natural tendencies in the organizational field, the role of entropy becomes clear...

... least squares (OLS) regressions and isometric log-ratio transformations for compositional independent variables to empirically examine the factors affecting CIR in Egypt using a modern institutional theory lens. Findings The findings of this investigation suggest that listed companies in Egypt have...

...Svitlana Firsova; Tetiana Bilorus; Lesya Olikh; Olha Salimon Purpose Institutional theory assumes practice adoption and subsequent decoupling. However, there is a range of alternative organizational theories that challenge this view and offer instead their reinterpretation, extension...

... on deinstitutionalization is taken as a key text on the subject and as a starting point for building an alternative theory of deinstitutionalization. More broadly, institutional theory and organizational literature on diffusion/adoption are reviewed and synthesized. Findings The authors argue that possibilities...

... theoretical apparatus and ontology, management fashion theory is understood as a theory that explains the transitory nature of popular ideas and practices while institutional theory explains their stabilization, persistence and further institutionalization. In a nutshell, it seems that being opposed to each...

... firms in emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach The propositions outlined in this study are rooted in the theoretical lens of resource dependence theory (RDT). The authors integrate RDT with the resource-based view and institutional theory to explain the effect of BG affiliation...

...Herman Aksom; Oksana Zhylinska; Tetiana Gaidai Purpose This paper aims to demonstrating that the former new institutional theory of isomorphism and decoupling cannot be extended, modified or refuted as it is a closed theory. By analyzing the structure of this former version of institutional theory...

... their means and continue to adhere to their respective logic is accounted for very little in institutional theory literature. In this paper, I address this problem in the literature by showing that one way of co-existence of multiple logics in the organizational field is the creation of independent...

... on institutionalism. Healthcare Regulation Institutional theory Health system Disguise mechanisms Multiple logics The literature on institutionalism has proposed the notion that different logics can influence particular contexts. Three of these ramifications can be highlighted. The first holds...