2018
DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2018.17837abstract
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The accidental implementation of an institutional ritual

Abstract: The coupling of organizational policy with practice is customarily attributed to the presence of institutional pressures. This paper reports a study o f an international non-governmental organization (INGO) in which day-today practice was coupled with symbolic rituals in spite of the absence of institutional pressures. This disconfirmatory finding indicates the need to move away from structural-deterministic models of coupling that presume a functional compliance between external pressures and organizational p… Show more

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