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

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

Outline of a Theory of Practice

1977 • 24,720 citations

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

2004 • 24,090 citations

Outline of a Theory of Practice.

1980 • 14,832 citations

Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems

1976 • 6,884 citations

Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes

1991 • 5,883 citations

In Search of Excellence

1982 • 4,211 citations

The Adolescence of Institutional Theory

1987 • 3,552 citations

Production of trust: Institutional sources of economic structure, 1840–1920.

1986 • 3,307 citations

The Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence

1977 • 2,992 citations

Loosely Coupled Systems: A Reconceptualization

1990 • 1,991 citations

Information in Organizations as Signal and Symbol

1981 • 1,707 citations

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

1988 • 685 citations

The philosophy of auditing.

1964 • 632 citations

Determinants of Interorganizational Relationships: Integration and Future Directions

1990 • 615 citations

A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference.

1985 • 464 citations

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

1985 • 462 citations

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

1993 • 401 citations

An Institutional Model of Organizational Practice: Financial Reporting at the Fortune 200

1990 • 396 citations

Ethical reasoning and selection-socialization in accounting

1992 • 354 citations

A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference

1986 • 284 citations

Proper compromises: The management control dilemma in public accounting and its impact on auditor behavior

1991 • 279 citations

Professional Networks and the Institutionalization of a Single Mind Set

1985 • 216 citations

The audit expectations gap—plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose?

1992 • 209 citations

The Lid on the Garbage Can: Institutional Constraints on Decision Making in the Technical Core of College-Text Publishers

1989 • 190 citations

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

1992 • 183 citations

Legitimating Myths and Educational Organization: The Relationship Between Organizational Ideology and Formal Structure

1977 • 147 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 Processes of Institutionalization: The Dramaturgy of Exchange in Interorganizational Relations

1986 • 120 citations

Corporatism and intraprofessional hegemony: A study of regulation and internal social order

1989 • 104 citations

The FASB: The People, the Process, and the Politics

1993 • 97 citations

The Institutionalization of Rational Organization

1985 • 86 citations

The rise of the accounting profession

1969 • 77 citations

The rationality of doing “nothing”: Auditors' responses to legal liability in an institutionalized environment

1991 • 68 citations

The management of legitimacy and politics in public sector administration

1991 • 57 citations

Accountants' liability and audit failures: When the umpire strikes out

1987 • 53 citations

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

1994 • 52 citations

The Organic vs. the mechanistic audit

1982 • 50 citations

The effectiveness of licensing: History, evidence, and recommendations.

1983 • 47 citations

New stock issues and the institutional production of trust

1991 • 43 citations

Ritual and conflict in the audit profession

1992 • 43 citations

THE DEVELOPMENT OF “THE BIG EIGHT” ACCOUNTING FIRMS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1900 TO 1990

1992 • 34 citations

The Public Accounting Profession

1971 • 31 citations

The Impact of regulation on controls : firms' response to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

1980 • 30 citations

SEC communications to the independent auditors: An analysis of enforcement actions

1992 • 27 citations

Environment and Organization

1994 • 23 citations

Contemporary Auditing Issues and Cases

1998 • 23 citations

Accounting self-regulation and the enforcement of professional codes

1993 • 20 citations

Justice as Interaction: Loose Coupling and Mediations in the Adversary Process*

1983 • 19 citations

The SEC and Corporate Disclosure: Regulation in Search of a Purpose

1980 • 18 citations

The SEC and Corporate Disclosure: Regulation in Search of a Purpose

1980 • 16 citations

An Examination of the Relationship between Audit-Related Risks and the Second Partner Review

1995 • 16 citations

The possible new shape of accounting in the United States

1985 • 13 citations

The professions under siege

1979 • 12 citations

ACCOUNTING REGULATION: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE: A COMMENT

1984 • 11 citations

Case for the unstructured audit approach

1984 • 9 citations

Public Policy and the Practice and Problems of Accounting.

1985 • 9 citations

The accountant's guide to peer and quality review

1993 • 4 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations