Organizational memory is not just the stock of knowledge about how to do things, but also of the expectations of organizational members vis-à-vis each other and the organization as a whole. The central argument of this paper is that this second type of organizational memory – organizational...

Institutional theory explains how interactions between organizations and institutions shape economic activity and consequently managerial performance and strategies. The institutional setting of most emerging countries is in transition, whereby a relationship-based transaction mode is gradually...

While bootstrap finance is widely used in entrepreneurial ventures, both scholars and practitioners have presented conflicting views on the relation between financial bootstrapping and venture growth. This paper empirically investigates the association between bootstrap strategies used at...

The focus of this article is organizational learning in Dutch governmental agencies in relation to evaluation studies of the Court of Audit. A theory is developed in which the impact of evaluation is related to institutional conditions, such as - formal arrangements and normative frameworks....