Institutionalization as an Interplay Between Actions, Meanings, and Actors: The Case of a Rape Crisis Center in Israel

Zilber, Tammar B.

doi:10.5465/3069294

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“…This approach was chosen based on the view that mediatization is constituted through and reflected in language and rules, and is incorporated into internal discourses (Zilber ; Brown et al ). Discourses manifest and represent organizations' ideas and rules about matters relevant for their performance and identity.…”

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Determinants of Organizational Mediatization: An Analysis of the Adaptation of Swedish Government Agencies to News Media

Fredriksson

Schillemans

Pallas

2015

Public Administration

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This article seeks to explain why the media affect some governmental agencies more than others. We develop a measuring instrument for the mediatization of agencies; gauging how they adapt to the media. We analyse the effects of six potential explanations of mediatization: media pressure, organizational size and task, salience, geographic location, and management structure. The analysis is based on a comprehensive quantitative contents analysis of policy documents from all governmental agencies in Sweden. The results show that agencies' propensity to adapt to the media is mainly determined by their management structure rather than, as could have been expected, by media pressure. Organizations managed by career managers invest more in media management than those led by field-professionals. Our results suggest that agencies have substantial agency in terms of how they cope with the media and that mediatization refers to much more than passive adaptation by organizations.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Organizational Mediatization: An Analysis of the Adaptation of Swedish Government Agencies to News Media

Fredriksson

Schillemans

Pallas

2015

Public Administration

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“…The existence of multiple institutional logics provides opportunities for institutional change in a field (Seo and Creed, ; Kilfoyle and Richardson, ). In some cases, the conflict of institutional logics results in confrontation and eventually the restabilization of the field based on a single logic (either the former dominant logic reasserts itself or a new logic gains dominance) (Purdy and Gray, ); in other cases a new institutional logic operates covertly and undermines the former logic until it emerges as the dominant logic (Zilber, ). However, it is also possible for multiple institutional logics to coexist over an extended period of time.…”

Section: Institutional Logicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Merging the Profession: A Historical Perspective on Accounting Association Mergers in Canada

Richardson

Kilfoyle

2012

Accounting Perspectives

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The history of creation of new professional accounting associations, mergers and proposed mergers among professional associations in Canada is reviewed through the lens of institutional theory to identify the conditions associated with major changes in the structure of the profession. Five waves of merger activity are identified between 1880 and 2010. These waves of mergers: (1) created isomorphism between the structure of accounting associations and the political structure of Canada, (2) differentiated associations to reflect the division of labour among accountants (primarily the separation of public and management accounting), (3) differentiated associations to reflect different educational paths into accounting (broadly conceived), and (4) consolidated the profession to facilitate the regulation of public accounting by the state. Contemporary issues affecting the structure of the profession are also identified including the globalization of accounting credentials. The historical waves of merger activity are argued to be an enactment of state and market institutional logics. These factors are compared with justifications/rationales and proposals for the merger of the accounting profession under the Chartered Professional Accountant, CPA, designation. The merger proposal would create a hybrid organization that retains within it historical institutional patterns. Issues concerning the stability of hybrid organizations in the literature are identified.

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“…In our view, convergence requires institutional change, that is, a multifaceted transformation of rules, norms, and cognition—each of which may change at different rates (Jonnergård, Kärreman & Svensson 2004; R. Scott 2001; Townley 2002; Zilber 2002). Richard Scott (2001, chapter 3) argues that the three necessary pillars of institutions: cognitive, regulative, and normative (ibid.…”

Section: Convergence From An Institutional Perspectivementioning

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“…The different pillars may be out of step with each other; for example, the people's cognition may be aligned with a new institution, while their norms may remain steadfastly connected to an older institution (Jonnergård, Kärreman & Svensson 2004). Complete institutionalization demands consistency between cognition, norms, and practices, and is often measured through the actions it brings about (Zilber 2002). The sequences of institutional change are, however, not pre‐determined (Jonnergård, Kärreman & Svensson 2004).…”

Section: Convergence From An Institutional Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since cognition and norms may be difficult to study per se (Townley 2002), one way of detecting whether an institutional change has occurred is to observe changes in the behavior of different actors (Zilber 2002) and the actors’ conversations regarding the issue at hand. That is, changes in behavior and conversations become a proxy for institutional change.…”

Section: Convergence From An Institutional Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Developing Codes of Conduct: Regulatory Conversations as Means for Detecting Institutional Change

Jonnergård

Larsson

2007

Law & Policy

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The introduction of a new corporate governance code in Sweden, modeled after prevailing Anglo‐Saxon norms of corporate governance, offers the opportunity to investigate global regulatory convergence. Using the metaphor of regulatory space, this article analyzes the positions of the parties who submitted formal responses to the introduction of “The Swedish Code of Corporate Governance—A Proposal from the Code Group.” While the globalization of financial markets might forecast unconditional acceptance of the proposed code by business and financial interests, the analysis of who made comments, and what was said, reveals three categorically distinct groups: Swedish business “insiders” connected to the existing institutional framework who opposed changes that would erode traditional division of functions, including collective responsibility for the actions of company boards; “outsiders” (i.e., foreign investors and more marginal Swedish investors) aligned with Anglo‐Saxon internationalization of the markets who would change the system of corporate accountability; and the professions (i.e., auditors), who advocated for their professional interests. Of the three groups, Swedish business insiders were most successful in gaining support for their positions. Although international financial and political interests were key to the introduction of the Code in the first place, the article demonstrates how the dynamics of national (local) culture and power structures influence the transfer of regulatory law across jurisdictions.

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Institutionalization as an Interplay Between Actions, Meanings, and Actors: The Case of a Rape Crisis Center in Israel

Cited by 272 publications

References 43 publications

Determinants of Organizational Mediatization: An Analysis of the Adaptation of Swedish Government Agencies to News Media

Determinants of Organizational Mediatization: An Analysis of the Adaptation of Swedish Government Agencies to News Media

Merging the Profession: A Historical Perspective on Accounting Association Mergers in Canada

Developing Codes of Conduct: Regulatory Conversations as Means for Detecting Institutional Change

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