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...

Do headquarters influence the subsidiaries' arrangements of vocational training in foreign countries? Our analyses of the amount of training offered to employees by organizations in 14 countries in which different training systems prevail (either continuing vocational training or initial...

A central argument of new institutionalism is that organizational success depends not only on efficient coordination and control of productive activities, but on conforming to institutionalized expectations. There is a dearth of empirical studies which analyze the effects of the adoption of...

Quality management has become a prominent issue in management practice. In general the management literature presents management knowledge, such as quality management techniques and practices, as a technical tool and as a vehicle for improving the efficiency of organizations. The implicit...

The study deals with the question of why Benchmarking is experiencing such an overwhelming upswing. One possible explanation is presented, wherein Benchmarking is seen as a continuation and a further development of classic management theory. An analysis of the similarities and differences...

According to Neo-Instituionalists the formal structure of organizations is often less a means of coordinating and controlling the relationship between organization and environment, and of coordinating and controlling work-activities. Rather the elements of the formal structure are manifestations...

Recently, management literature frequently mentions the ''organization by trust'' - supervision in organizations is to be replaced by trust. In light of the more negative view of human behavior that has so far dominated classic management theory, this talk of an ''organization by trust'' appears...