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External Institutional Pressures

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Institutional constraints and the web of social relations influence key organizational dimensions and hinder their decisional capacities, even determining a move away from any pre-established rational goal. This chapter focuses on the relationship between institutions and organizations within the external environment. We begin by defining the external institutional environment and the dimension of the organizational field, and by describing legitimation mechanisms and isomorphic processes. It then moves toward presentation of the institutional-based view, first introducing market problems and market-ordering mechanisms.

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  1. Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Maria Carmela Annosi

  2. LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy

    Federica Brunetta

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Annosi, M.C., Brunetta, F. (2017). External Institutional Pressures. In: New Organizational Forms, Controls, and Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54750-3_3

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