Talk:Institutional theory

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institutional theory is not about politics, it's instead about management. also two important concepts like reliability and accountability are missing in this article. 130.115.196.145 (talk) 12:47, 3 March 2008 (UTC)erasmus uni &mdash;Leif Arne Storset 09:47, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't have time to search for a "managament" stub template now, but if not, "sociology" may be an equally valid tag.

Also applicable to Migration Theory. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ToddNach (talk • contribs) 05:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

How about merging this article with Institutional analysis? MaxPont (talk) 17:31, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

The quote is from (Scott, W. R. (2008). Institutions and organizations: ideas and interests. Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage Publications.) But I dont know how to do it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.36.224.227 (talk) 12:51, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Would be nice to quote that lot of this text is quoted from "Liu, W. (2004). The cross-national transfer of HRM practices in MNCs: An integrative research model. International Journal of Manpower, 25(6), 500-517." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.50.146.10 (talk) 12:47, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

I think the main issue here is that Institutional Theory is a very multifaceted theory, implying many research fields. And it is difficult to find the core and main message. I suggest to first define what are institutions, what does that mean for institutional theory and how it can be viewed from different research fields. From my point of view are institutions and therefore institutional theory how external influences, influence organizations. External forces are the institutions and they can be almost anything. There are three kind of processes, normative (norms from a society etc), legalastive (rules and obligations, by law from a country etc. ) or cultural cogntive. Due to these pressures, organizations who are similair and therefore have the same pressures/demands can become isomorphic (more and more alike). Other keypoint in Institutional Theory are organizations constantly looking for legitimacy and therefore conflicting institutional demands can arise. Do you agree or not? Are these the keypoints in Institutional Theory?