How organizations cope with multiple and sometimes conflicting institutional demands is an increasingly familiar yet little understood question. This paper examines how four French business schools responded to demands that they internationalize their management education whilst retaining their...

This paper offers a longitudinal study grounded in the observation of an organization that was trapped in escalation of commitment to a failed strategy for a decade. Specifically, we will show how internal (organizational) and external (institutional) phenomena enabled the emergence of the...