Drawing on neo-institutional theory, our study examines how institutions deal with radical ideas that do not fit in with the dominant knowledge arrangements that define what we call the ...

Any answer should begin with the dominant theory from the sociology of organizations: neo-institutionalism and isomorphism. The theory explains that organizations go beyond their core competencies to ...

In this short presentation we will discuss how neo-Durkheimian institutional theory can be employed to examine issues in the accounting field. We will refer to studies we have undertaken that draw on ...

Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 16, No. 1 (March 2005), pp. 1-31 (31 pages) This paper assesses the extent of structural similarity or isomorphism among ...

More importantly, however, all the relationships posited by the neo-institutional approach are statistically significant and in the expected direction. An institutional approach guided by rational ...

A major development in biology that culminated in the late 40s was the fusion of Darwin’s theory of natural selection and Mendelian genetics into what is now known as the Neo-Darwinian synthesis.