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Peer reviewedHirsch, Paul M. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1975
Compares the organizational effectiveness of the phonograph record industry and the ethical pharmaceutical industry to explore the collective interaction of organizations in each industry with their institutional environment. (Author)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Institutional Environment, Merchandising, Organizational Effectiveness
Peer reviewedFennell, Mary L. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1980
The population ecology view that variation in sets or clusters of organizations should be isomorphic with variation in cluster environment was used to explain structural variation among hospital clusters. Cluster differentiation seems to be casually affected by range of services, average hospital size, and the periodic closing of hospitals.…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Institutional Environment, Mathematical Models, Medical Services
Peer reviewedPennings, Johannes M. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1975
This study has tried to determine factors that explain why organizations differ structurally and how they vary with respect to their effectiveness. It has not been successful in understanding variance in these parameters. (Author)
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Institutional Environment, Models, Organization
Peer reviewedKochan, Thomas A. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1975
Illustrates the theoretical and empirical usefulness of studying one specific aspect of collective bargaining from an interorganizational perspective--specifically, the determinants of the amount of power an organization concentrates in a boundary unit for dealing with another organization. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Collective Bargaining, Employer Employee Relationship, Institutional Environment
Peer reviewedTolbert, Pamela S. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1985
Analyses involving public and private institutions of higher education indicate that dependence on nontraditional sources of support is a strong predictor of administrative differentiation and demonstrate the validity of integrating the two theoretical perpectives of resource dependence and institutionalization. Seven tables, a graph, and 42…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Finance, Expectation, Fund Raising
Peer reviewedKiggundu, Moses N.; And Others – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1983
Reviews 94 articles published between 1956 and 1981 on organizations in developing nations, examining the articles' methods, topics, geographic coverage, the author's institutional affiliation, and degree of fit between Western-based administrative theory and the data reported. Found degrees of fit strong for organizational tasks but weak for…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedRowan, Brian – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1982
A historical study of three school administrative services--school health, psychology, and curriculum--in 30 California school districts during 1930-1970 used an institutional environment approach to find that balance among institutions and agencies governing school systems, not organizational size, led to greater diffusion and retention of the…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Curriculum Development, Diffusion, Educational Administration
