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Isomorphism, Isopraxism and Isonymism - Complementary or Competing Processes?

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  • Erlingsdottír, Gudbjörg

    (Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund University)

  • Lindberg, Kajsa

    (GRI, School of Economics & Commercial Law)

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New institutional theory has been criticized, for describing institutionalization as a static qualitative state rather than a process. In this paper we provide an extended understanding of the process of institutionalization by replacing the mechanical concept of diffusion by the concept of translation and an analytical model of “travel of ideas”. Analyzing the field material from three cases of translation of ideas in the Swedish health care sector we have traced not only various homogenizing but also heterogenizing processes which reproduce organizational ideas, models, and practices. In the paper we thus suggest and discuss how name, form, and practice can be seen as different expressions of an idea through which organizations can be homogenized or heterogenized in an institutional process.

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  • Erlingsdottír, Gudbjörg & Lindberg, Kajsa, 2005. "Isomorphism, Isopraxism and Isonymism - Complementary or Competing Processes?," Working Paper Series 2005/4, Lund University, Institute of Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhb:lufewp:2005_004
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    1. Becker, Albrecht, 2008. "Global or local? Travelling management accounting ideas," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 10(1), pages 16-20.
    2. Saori Matsubara & Takahiro Endo, 2016. "The Role of Local Accounting Standard Setters in Institutional Complexity: 'Explosion' of Local Standards in Japan," Discussion Paper Series DP2016-35, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University.
    3. Paola Perez-Aleman, 2011. "Collective Learning in Global Diffusion: Spreading Quality Standards in a Developing Country Cluster," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 22(1), pages 173-189, February.
    4. Yoo, Taeyoung & Jung, Dong Kwan, 2015. "Corporate governance change and performance: The roles of traditional mechanisms in France and South Korea," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 40-53.

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    isomorphism; isopraxism; isonymism; insitutionalization; translation of ideas; organizational change;
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