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| Author: | Mizruchi, M. Fein, L. |
| Title: | The social construction of organizational knowledge: a study of the uses of coercive, mimetic, and normative isomorphism |
| Journal: | Administrative Science Quarterly
1999 : DEC, VOL. 44:4, p. 653-683 |
| Index terms: | ORGANIZATION KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Arguing that knowledge in the social sciences is socially constructed through the selective interpretation of major works, the authors examine the fate of a classic article in organizational theory -- DiMaggio and Powell's 1983 essay on institutional isomorphism. They show that one aspect of this article, the discussion of mimetic isomorphism, has received attention disproportionate to its role in the essay. |
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