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...

In this study, the authors examine how societal and industrial sector-specific peculiarities moderate the translation of intra-organizational openness into innovativeness. A sample comprising N = 24 subsystems from privatized Romanian natural gas companies and N = 26 subsystems from privatized...