Works
- The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields, American Sociological Review 48(2), from p. 147, 1983
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Institutional isomorphism
Ideas
Institutional isomorphism. With Powell, DiMaggio named coercive, mimetic, and normative isomorphism as the mechanisms that make organizations in a field alike. Caveat: Theory.