We examine the governance practices, ownership structures, and analyst followings of US-listed firms from the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Chile, and Israel, and find little evidence of convergence toward a US model of corporate governance. In the size of their boards, the proportion of inside...

A large and growing literature examines the explicit social responsibility practices of companies. Yet corporations’ greatest consequences for social welfare arguably occur through indirect processes that shape the social fabric that sustains generosity and mutual support within communities....

This chapter examines the transition in the US banking industry from a community to a national logic, developing a general model to explain how and when shifts in institutional logics occur. Based on qualitative historical evidence and discrete-time event history analysis predicting the...

How does organizations' embeddedness in social and cultural communities influence their behavior? And how has this changed with recent communication technology advances and globalization trends? In this introductory chapter to Research in the Sociology of Organization's volume on Communities and...

We empirically examine the institutional dynamics attending the process whereby legitimate organizational symbols become illegitimate. We conducted two studies, one historical and one comparative, of those firms that appended “dot-com” to their names during the period of “Internet...

We argue that the language spoken by corporate decision makers influences their firms' social responsibility and sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological importance of the future. Prior research has shown that...