Applying the theoretical lens of organizational institutionalism, this study analyzes the spread of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Austrian corporate world. The objectives are threefold: First, to explore the institutional framework in place; second, to explain the dissemination of...

Die Studie widmet sich der Analyse der latent hinter den Regelungsinhalten deutschsprachiger Führungsgrundsätze wirkenden Sinn- und Bedeutungsdimension. Unter Rückgriff auf qualitativ-hermeneutische und argumentationsanalytische Methoden werden die unhinterfragten und typisierten...

Die Studie widmet sich der Analyse der latent hinter den Regelungsinhalten deutschsprachiger Führungsgrundsätze wirkenden Sinn- und Bedeutungsdimension. Unter Rückgriff auf qualitativ-hermeneutische und argumentationsanalytische Methoden werden die unhinterfragten und typisierten...

Applying the theoretical lens of organizational institutionalism, this study analyzes the spread of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Austrian corporate world. The objectives are threefold: First, to explore the institutional framework in place; second, to explain the dissemination of...

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 focus on isomorphism and...

This essay explores potential research opportunities at the intersection of institutions, innovation, and impact. We engage with, and probe into, what we have dubbed the ‘cultural future’ by examining several examples described in the 2017 “Future Issue” of the Fortune magazine. Our...

From the early decades of the twentieth century, a dominant characteristic of the modern “capitalist” corporation, especially in the United States, was the separation of asset ownership in the form of publicly traded shares from allocative control over the corporation's resources by salaried...