“…Institutional theory considers how societal norms, rules, and practices form institutional pressures and place pressure on organizations, shaping the way they operate within these societies along with the strategic options that are available to them (Almadi, 2016;Hitt, Ahlstrom, Dacin, Levitas, & Svobodina, 2004;Lu, Xu, & Liu, 2009;Meyer, Estrin, Bhaumik, & Peng, 2009;Ren & Jack, 2014). These pressures can be divided into formal and informal: the formal government regulatory context and the more informal aspect of culture and norms.…”