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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"isomorphic pressures"”.
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Embedding generic employability skills in Greek accounting education studies: Development and impediments.
… mimetic, normative) as a tool to analyse the pressures and barriers to skills introduction in HE accounting courses. The study employs a Mixed Methods Methodology and a 3-Phase Sequential Exploratory Design (Creswell and Plano Clark, 2007) to investigate the views of three groups of …
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Institutionalization of anti-obesity messages in Chilean schools
… control at the TPB level; institutional pressures over messages were also analyzed from the influence of coercive, normative, and mimetic isomorphic pressures from the IT perspective. In this exploratory study, research questions and hypotheses related to the adoption of these types of …
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Nonprofit Leader Experiences in Sector-bending After Lean Six Sigma Training: Tension, Concepts, and Changed Behaviors
… The emergence of hybrid forms and increasing isomorphic pressures in the nonprofit sector (Bromley & Meyer, 2017; McCambridge, 2014) have challenged the traditional separation of organizational forms. This study explored the phenomenon popularized as <strong>sector-bending, </strong>“a wide …
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Linking entrepreneurial motivation, attitude, behaviour and sustainable supply chain performance measurement in South African manufacturing small and medium enterprises
… are other forces around such as institutional pressures or resources that will directly affect their attitude towards SSCPM. The results reveal that institutional isomorphic patterns and resources impact in varying degrees on the SMEs' adoption and implementation of SSCPM. Government policies …
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The role of innovation and institutional pressures in sustainable packaging
… It suggests that mimetic, coercive and normative pressures exist within manufacturing firms that can regulate and coordinate solutions. A level of understanding of perceived fidelity and perceived effort required were established to develop conditions where firms can create strategies for the …
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Isomorphism in strategic decision-making
… of binding resource constraints and legal pressures. The proportion of isomorphic decisions diminished with industry age: isomorphic behaviour did not become institutionalised. It was positively associated with industry dynamism - isomorphism was possibly used for risk reduction. No …
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Crisis Management in the Delivery of Women's Reproductive Health Care: Responding to Social Activism
… data indicate that rather than conforming to pressures by anti-abortion activists, facilities develop features that actively resist the pressures exerted by this stakeholder group. The work extends research in corporate social performance by pointing out that crisis management can be subsumed …
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Understanding the Microfoundations of Environmental Improvement in SMEs: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan’s Leather Industry
… to exert the coercive, normative and mimetic isomorphic pressures on leatherworking SMEs to behave environmentally responsibly. Sustainability values of owner-managers, financial benefits and aspirations for image building also drive these firms to reduce their environmental footprints. …
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Small and medium enterprises and the effectiveness of technology business incubators in Saudi Arabia
… SA TBIs and SMEs are subject to four types of isomorphic pressure. This research puts forward two novel theoretical contributions. First, it presents a way of understanding pressures on SMEs and how SMEs are related to isomorphism and competitive pressure by showing different timeframes for …
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Risk Management Practices in Saudi Listed Companies: An Institutional Perspective
… types of coercive, mimetic and normative isomorphic pressures on the adoption of risk management practices by Saudi listed companies. For this purpose, two pieces of empirical work are employed, (i) semi- structured interviews; and (ii) statistical tests. The interviews were held with 22 …