The making and remaking of organization context

Diffusion of Innovations

1962 • 38,523 citations

The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

1983 • 30,238 citations

Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

1977 • 25,202 citations

The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields

2004 • 24,090 citations

The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration

1984 • 20,858 citations

The Social Construction of Reality

1967 • 14,084 citations

The theory of communicative action

2014 • 9,056 citations

The Social System

1951 • 9,026 citations

Institutions and organizations

1995 • 8,595 citations

Central Problems in Social Theory

1979 • 7,575 citations

The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

1991 • 7,354 citations

The machine that changed the world

1992 • 6,070 citations

Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes

1991 • 5,883 citations

Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis.

1980 • 5,070 citations

A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation

1992 • 4,951 citations

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

1984 • 3,390 citations

Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

1987 • 3,360 citations

The Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence

1977 • 2,992 citations

Interest and Agency in Institutional Theory

1988 • 2,968 citations

Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935

1983 • 2,847 citations

New rules of sociological method

1976 • 2,691 citations

Understanding Radical Organizational Change: Bringing Together the Old and the New Institutionalism

1996 • 2,633 citations

Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution

1997 • 2,520 citations

Frameworks of Power

1989 • 2,337 citations

Institutional Theories of Organization

1987 • 2,333 citations

Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay

1990 • 2,277 citations

The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

1992 • 1,747 citations

Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality.

1985 • 1,733 citations

Conceptualizing management accounting change: an institutional framework

2000 • 1,500 citations

The strategy-focused organization

2001 • 1,428 citations

TVA and the Grass Roots

1951 • 1,305 citations

ACQUIRING ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY THROUGH ILLEGITIMATE ACTIONS: A MARRIAGE OF INSTITUTIONAL AND IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT THEORIES.

1992 • 1,050 citations

Accounting systems and systems of accountability — understanding accounting practices in their organisational contexts

1985 • 985 citations

An institutional perspective on performance measurement and management in the ‘new public sector’

2000 • 885 citations

The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the Communitarian agenda

1993 • 819 citations

General Economic History

2017 • 794 citations

An Institutional Perspective on the Rise, Social Transformation, and Fall of a University Budget Category

1988 • 685 citations

Modern Sociological Theory

2001 • 621 citations

Institutional theory and accounting rule choice: an analysis of four US state governments' decisions to adopt generally accepted accounting principles

2001 • 607 citations

The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society

1997 • 595 citations

TESTING A MODEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSE TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES.

1994 • 560 citations

Organizational Transformation During Institutional Upheaval

2000 • 541 citations

Never mind the gap: towards an institutional perspective on management accounting practice

1994 • 538 citations

Accounting, ambiguity, and the new institutionalism

1995 • 529 citations

A Field Study of Control System “Redesign”: The Impact of Institutional Processes on Strategic Choice*

1996 • 523 citations

Experts, networks and inscriptions in the fabrication of accounting images: A story of the representation of three public hospitals

1995 • 516 citations

Institutional Environments and Resource Dependence: Sources of Administrative Structure in Institutions of Higher Education

1985 • 462 citations

Structuration theory in management accounting

1990 • 431 citations

An institutional theory perspective on the DRG framework, case-mix accounting systems and health-care organizations

1993 • 401 citations

Understanding and Social Inquiry

1977 • 388 citations

The dynamics of accounting change Inter‐play between new practices, routines, institutions, power and politics

2000 • 376 citations

Accounting and control: a case study of resistance to accounting change

1993 • 338 citations

Organization, Class and Control

1983 • 322 citations

Accounting as a legitimating institution

1987 • 319 citations

The use of budgetary symbols in the political arena: An historically informed field study

1988 • 295 citations

Rational, rationalizing, and reifying uses of accounting data in organizations

1987 • 274 citations

Structure and agency in an institutionalized setting: The application and social transformation of control in the Big Six

1997 • 237 citations

Accounting as a Critical Social Science

1991 • 194 citations

Understanding non‐financial performance measurement practices in Japanese banks

2002 • 193 citations

Recent financial and administrative changes in the NHS: A critical theory analysis

1991 • 189 citations

Organizational socialization in accounting firms: A theoretical framework and agenda for future research

1992 • 183 citations

Acquiring Organizational Legitimacy Through Illegitimate Actions: A Marriage of Institutional and Impression Management Theories

1992 • 177 citations

The imagery and reality of peer review in the U.S.: Insights from institutional theory

1996 • 173 citations

The power of accounting: a field study of local financial management in a police force

2001 • 163 citations

Organisational resistance strategies to unwanted accounting and finance changes

2001 • 158 citations

The Ecological Aspect of Institutions

1936 • 140 citations

GAAP as a symbol of legitimacy: New York State's decision to adopt generally accepted accounting principles

1992 • 127 citations

Overboard with Myth and SymbolsOrganizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality.John W. Meyer , W. Richard Scott , Brian Rowan , Terrence E. Deal

1985 • 125 citations

Early regulatory actions by the SEC: An institutional theory perspective on the dramaturgy of political exchanges

1996 • 116 citations

The Coupling of the Symbolic and the Technical in an Institutionalized Context: The Negotiated Order of the GAO's Audit Reporting Process

1999 • 106 citations

Structure and agency in management accounting research: A response to Boland's interpretive act

1996 • 105 citations

Financial accounting standard setting as an institutionalized action field: Constraints, opportunities and dilemmas

1992 • 103 citations

Why shared meanings have no place in structuration theory: A reply to scapens and macintosh

1996 • 102 citations

Sampling and the abstraction of knowledge in the auditing profession: An extended institutional theory perspective

1993 • 94 citations

Rationality, institutions and decision making: Reflections on March and Olsen's rediscovering institutions

1994 • 92 citations

COMMODIFYING BUSINESS AND ACCOUNTING EDUCATION: THE IMPLICATIONS OF ACCREDITATION

1996 • 86 citations

The Ethics of profit manipulation: A Dialectic of Control Analysis

1995 • 75 citations

Standards across borders: crossborder diffusion of the arm's length standard in North America

2001 • 74 citations

THE SEC'S ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS AGAINST AUDITORS: AN AUDITOR REPUTATION AND INSTITUTIONAL THEORY PERSPECTIVE

1997 • 69 citations

Untitled

2002 • 64 citations

The management of legitimacy and politics in public sector administration

1991 • 57 citations

Actions speak louder than words: An institutional perspective on the Securities and Exchange Commission

1994 • 52 citations

We’re off to see the wizard

2001 • 50 citations

Accounting and Competitive Tendering in UK Local Government: An Institutionalist Interpretation of the New Public Management

1999 • 46 citations

New stock issues and the institutional production of trust

1991 • 43 citations

The Theory of Instrumental Value: Extensions, Clarifications

2007 • 42 citations

A Weberian framework in the study of accounting

1991 • 33 citations

Institutional Pressures and Symbolic Displays in a GAO Context

2000 • 32 citations

PROACTIVE PRACTICE REVIEW: A CRITICAL CASE STUDY OF ACCOUNTING REGULATION THAT NEVER WAS

1997 • 27 citations

An institutional analysis of accounting growth and regulation in the United States

1993 • 13 citations

GAAP AS A SYMBOL OF LEGITIMACY: NEW YORK STATE'S DECISION TO ADOPT GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING...

1992 • 11 citations

WHITHER GOEST THOU? SEEKING TRENDS IN ORGANIZATION THEORY INTO THE NEW MILLENIUM.

1999 • 6 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations