BUS 374 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article: New Institutionalism, Mobile Game, Liberal Arts Education

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 374
• Professor: Marina Puricelli

Document Summary

New institutionalism: emphasis on the competitive marketplace as the major environmental force driving organizational change is no longer valid (813) emphasis on inertia, persistence, and isomorphism in highly institutionalized organizational field (813) As fields undergo increasing structuration, the organizations, of necessity, become increasingly homogeneous (814) Proposition 1: in a highly institutionalized organizational field, organizations are not likely to change in ways contrary to the demands of the institutional environment. Neoinstitutionalists view changing technical environmental factors as relatively unimportant sources of organizational change in a mature organizational field (814) Hypothesis 1: colleges will not be likely to change in illegitimate ways, such as moving toward professionalizing or vocationalizing the curriculum. Evidence does not support this hypothesis, almost 80% of colleges increased # of programs offered (823) Proposition 2: in a highly institutionalized organizational field, changing technical environmental conditions exert little influence on organizational change.