How do subsidiaries respond to normative demands from both their headquarters and local external constituents? We propose that subsidiaries pay varying levels of attention to either demands depending on their peers' norm-conforming behavior, resulting in heterogeneous practice implementation. We...

Beside making organizations look like their peers through the adoption of similar attributes (which we call alignment), this paper highlights the fact that conformity also enables organizations to stand out by exhibiting highly salient attributes key to their field or industry (which we call...

Der vorliegende Beitrag berichtet über fragwürdiges Unternehmensverhalten. Wir gehen auf Fälle ein, die einiges Aufsehen erregt haben. Ziel unserer Darlegungen ist es, einen Beitrag zur Erklärung der "Bad Practices" zu leisten, die hierbei zur Anwendung kamen. Primär geht es uns um die...

What fundamental forces account for procedural change in majoritarian voting institutions? I address this question by defining majoritarianism as a variable with two attributes: a numeric component that sets a threshold of assent among decision-makers, and a contextual component that defines the...