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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"institutional work"”.
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Examining the institutional work of sustainability reporting managers and sustainability assurance providers: An institutional work perspective
… (2006) typology to understand the forms of institutional work SRMs and SAPs undertake as they perform their roles and how these efforts affect the institutionalisation of sustainability reporting and sustainability assurance. Given the interpretive nature of this research the tenants of …
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Pressure on Auditors and Dysfunctional Behaviour as Institutional Work
… the relationships between pressure from the institutional environment and auditor behaviour in the context of Indonesia. Auditors play an important role in the economy of a country by providing credible information for various users of audited financial statements for decision-making. …
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An ethnographic study of institutional work in a creative proto-institutional place
… institutions not yet entrenched - are formed. Institutional work, which explains how social actors try to influence institutions, offers one possible theoretical lens. I systematically reviewed the existing literature from a semantic and thematic perspective. Entering the field, data was …
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Assembly and Maintenance Required: The Institutional Work Supporting Court-Connected Mediation Programs
… qualitative research study sheds lights on the institutional work needed to maintain court-connected mediation program. Its main assumption is that court-connected mediation programs, like many other institutions, are not self-reproducing institutions. Supportive activities are always required …
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Implementing community renewables: institutional work in South Africa's renewable energy procurement programme
… benefit requirements. The theoretical frameworks of institutional work and logics helps to analyse this new organizational field and interaction of various actors in government, industries and communities. An action research approach grounds this research empirically and aims to create the …
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From Shock to Awe: The Awe of Organisation: How do Community-Based Festivals do Institutional Work?
… flows and effectively doing what scholars of institutional theory call institutional work. The project is located in a central case study, the Muizenberg Festival, where I haved played a role as a coordinator, and have co-designed the festival process and platform between 2014 and 2019. It is …
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Components, powers & commitment: Building blocks of business model change for sustainability
… the SBM literature. Next, through the lenses of institutional logics and institutional work, I investigate shared underlying expectations that influence business models. Over an almost 2-year ethnographic study, I follow an employee-owned professional services firm (PSF) from a realisation that …
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How financial intermediation affects information asymmetry and the uptake of life insurance in marginalized communities in South Africa
… and how these contribute to the advancement of institutional work in dualistically structured markets. The main research question was, “How do intermediaries engage in institutional work to address information asymmetries in the uptake of life insurance in the South African low-income market?” …
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Fostering virtue among autorickshaw drivers in Sri Lanka: a case study of an urban sharing institution
… using the theories of MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics, Institutional Theory and Algorithmic Management, explores the MacIntyrean Virtues-Goods-Practice-Institution Framework and Institutional Work strategies in a non-western context among autorickshaw drivers transiting to roles in a prominent …
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Institutional perspectives on the implementation of the United Nations principles for responsible management education in UK business schools
… an account of an empirical study into the institutionalisation of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) in UK university business schools. 29 academics in 22 schools were engaged in dialogic interviews to address three questions: (1) What are the reported …
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The Logics of Healthcare – In Quality Improvement Work
… practice, traditional professional modes of working remain relatively stable and entrenched. Previous research has highlighted the fact that healthcare professionals’ active involvement in quality improvement work (QIW) is often lacking. Such a lack is often explained by professionals’ …
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Circular Economy strategies of social enterprises in Lagos: a case study approach
The circular economy (CE) framework has the potential to play a vital role in facilitating a different kind of development in low and middle-income country (LMIC) contexts, due to its promise of improving resource productivity, creating jobs and minimizing environmental degradation from human and …
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Staying together while learning: Relational work & the construction of collective institutional agency
… literature is consistent that organizations must work collectively to address them (Berrone et al., 2016; Dorado, 2005). However, because these challenges are also uncertain and evaluative, there is often little agreement about what constitutes desirable change, or what path to take to get there. …
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Being “Other”: Ana Mendieta’s Artistic Practice and Feminist Politics within Arts Institutions
… other Latin American artists, and, through her institutional work, she showcased her commitment to uplifting Third World women through a politics of being “Other.” By approaching Mendieta’s practice through her work with arts institutions, this thesis connects her artistic practice to the …
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White Memory and the (Counter)Stories We Might Tell
… ask what we should do with archives that exceed institutional progress narratives. Specifically, I foreground White memory, a process through which (mis)remembering public history creates a network of meaning-making practices that undergird and support hegemonic storytelling and worldmaking. To …
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Crisis as opportunity? Emergent groups, crisis relief, and social innovation in response to Covid-19
… towards longer-term change ambitions. Taking an institutional work lens to social innovation, this study shows that emergent response groups engage with and challenge multiple performative institutional dimensions in their work and that they have the ability, and often the desire, to affect more …
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Corporate Social Innovation and Intrapreneurship in South Africa Through the Lens of Institutional Theory
… documents and was analysed through the lens of institutional theory. This theoretical perspective enables an examination of the intrapreneurship process as an engagement with the elements of social structure that are present in organisations and the broader social systems around them. It sheds …
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The Emergence of Sustainability Reporting in Pakistan – The Institutional Logics Perspective
This study seeks to examine the institutional logics and processual dynamics behind the emergence of sustainability reporting (hereafter SR) in Pakistan. It investigates both the emergence of the SR field, as well as logics and processes of the initiation and implementation of SR in eight …
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Talking Shop: Worker Voice and Representation in the Digital Age
This dissertation analyzes how frontline worker interests can be both included and affected throughout the lifecycle of intelligent technologies (e.g., AI-enabled sensors, robotics, and analytics), with a particular focus on the role of third-party technology vendors. By drawing on a 31-month …
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