All around the world, societies are experiencing an explosion of organizations and organizing: community clubs, religious groups, social movements, as well as schools, hospitals, businesses and government agencies, increasingly take the form of complex and formal organization. Why? Why is global...

type="main" <title type="main">Abstract </title> <p>Greenwood, Hinings and Whetten (2014) present two major criticisms of current institutional scholarship, and see need for a broad redirection: institutional organization theory, they argue, has lost sight of the claim to study organizations and, with its overwhelming...</p>

Auf der Basis der neoinstitutionalistischen Organisationstheorie untersuchen wir mithilfe einer empirischen Analyse der Internetkommunikation von drei DAX30-Unternehmungen die Fragen, wofuer Unternehmungen Verantwortung uebernehmen und wie sie ihre Verantwortungsuebernahme kommunizieren. Wir...