Why institutions matter: Stakeholder attention to organizational ethics commitments

Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Volumn 44, Issue , 2000, Pages 199-233

  Chandler, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Institutions; Practice implementation; Stakeholder attention; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928730666     PISSN: 0733558X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20150000044009     Document Type: Article

References (76)

1. Allison, P. D. (1999). Logistic regression: Using the SAS system (theory and application) (1st ed.). Cary, NC: SAS Publishing.
2. Ashforth, B. E., Gioia, D. A., Robinson, S. L., & Trevino, L. K. (2008). Special topic forum on corruption in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 33(3).
3. Barnett, M. L. (2012). Why stakeholders ignore firm misconduct: A cognitive view. Journal of Management, 40(3), 676-702.
4. Belsley, D. A., Kuh, E., & Welsch, R. E. (1980). Regression diagnostics: Identifying influential data and sources of collinearity. New York, NY: Wiley.
5. Burgoon, J. K., & Le Poire, B. A. (1993). Effects of communication expectancies, actual communication, and expectancy disconfirmation on evaluations of communicators and their communication behavior. Human Communication Research, 20(1), 67-96.
6. Chandler, D. (2014a). Morals, markets, and values-based businesses. Academy of Management Review, 39(3), 396-406.
7. Chandler, D. (2014b). Organizational susceptibility to institutional complexity: Critical events driving the adoption and implementation of the ethics and compliance officer position. Organization Science, 25(6), 1722-1743.
8. Clark, B. R. (1972). The organizational saga in higher education. Administrative Science Quarterly, 17(2), 178-184.
9. Cyert, R. M., & March, J. G. (1963). A behavioral theory of the firm. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
10. Dacin, M. T., Munir, K., & Tracey, P. (2010). Formal dining at Cambridge colleges: Linking ritual performance and institutional maintenance. Academy of Management Journal, 53(6), 1393-1418.
11. Dixon, W. J. (1960). Simplified estimation from censored normal samples. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 31(2), 385-391.
12. Donaldson, T. (2003). Taking ethics seriously: A mission now more possible. Academy of Management Review, 28(3), 363-366.
13. Edelman, L. B. (1992). Legal ambiguity and symbolic structures: Organizational mediation of civil rights law. The American Journal of Sociology, 97(6), 1531-1576.
14. Edmondson, A. (1999). Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 350-383.
15. Edmondson, A. C. (2003). Speaking up in the operating room: How team leaders promote learning in interdisciplinary action teams. Journal of Management Studies, 40(6), 1419-1452.
16. Fombrun, C., & Shanley, M. (1990). What's in a name? Reputation building and corporate strategy. Academy of Management Journal, 33(2), 233-258.
17. Godfrey, P. C. (2005). The relationship between corporate philanthropy and shareholder wealth: A risk management perspective. Academy of Management Review, 30(4), 777-798.
18. Goodstein, J., Butterfield, K. D., Pfarrer, M. D., & Wicks, A. C. (2011). Special issue call for manuscripts: Reintegrating individuals and organizations following ethical or legal transgressions. Business Ethics Quarterly.
19. Greenwood, R., Hinings, C. R., & Whetten, D. (2014). Rethinking institutions and organizations. Journal of Management Studies, 51(7), 1206-1220.
20. Greenwood, R., Li, S. X., Prakash, R., & Deephouse, D. L. (2005). Reputation, diversification, and organizational explanations of performance in professional service firms. Organization Science, 16(6), 661-673.
21. Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Sahlin-Andersson, K., & Suddaby, R. (Eds.). (2008). The Sage handbook of organizational institutionalism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
22. Greve, H. R., Palmer, D., & Pozner, J.-e. (2010). Organizations gone wild: The causes, processes, and consequences of organizational misconduct. The Academy of Management Annals, 4, 53-107.
23. Heclo, H. (2002). The statesman: Revisiting leadership in administration. In R. A. Kagan et al. (Eds.), Legality and community: On the intellectual legacy of Philip Selznick (pp. 295-310). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
24. Heugens, P. P. M. A. R., & Scherer, A. G. (2010). When organization theory met business ethics: Toward further symbioses. Business Ethics Quarterly, 20(4), 643-672.
25. Hinings, C. R. B., & Greenwood, R. (2015). Missing in action: The further contribution of Philip Selznick to contemporary institutional theory. In M. Kraatz (Ed.), Institutions and ideals: Philip Selznick's legacy for organizational studies (Vol. 44). Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
26. Hoffman, A. J., & Ocasio, W. (2001). Not all events are attended equally: Toward a middlerange theory of industry attention to external events. Organization Science, 12(4), 414-434.
27. King, B. G. (2015). Organizational actors, character, and Selznick's theory of organizations. In M. Kraatz (Ed.), Institutions and ideals: Philip Selznick's legacy for organizational studies (Vol. 44). Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
28. Kraatz, M. S. (2009). Leadership as institutional work: A bridge to the other side. In T. B. Lawrence et al. (Eds.), Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations (pp. 59-91). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
29. Kraatz, M. S., Ventresca, M. J., & Deng, L. (2010). Precarious values and mundane innovations: Enrollment management in American liberal arts colleges. Academy of Management Journal, 53(6), 1521-1545.
30. Kraatz, M. S., & Zajac, E. J. (1996). Exploring the limits of the new institutionalism: The causes and consequences of illegitimate organizational change. American Sociological Review, 61(5), 812-836.
31. Krygier, M. (2015). Selznick's Hobbesian idealism: Its nature and its origins. In M. Kraatz (Ed.), Institutions and ideals: Philip Selznick's legacy for organizational studies (Vol. 24). Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
32. Lawrence, T. B., Suddaby, R., & Leca, B. (Eds.). (2009). Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
33. LeClair, D. T., Ferrell, O. C., & Fraedrich, J. P. (1998). Integrity management: A guide to managing legal and ethical issues in the workplace. Tampa, FL: University of Tampa Press.
34. Lentz, A., & Tschirgi, H. (1963). The ethical content of annual reports. The Journal of Business, 36(4), 387-393.
35. Lok, J., & de Rond, M. (2013). On the plasticity of institutions: Containing and restoring practice breakdowns at the Cambridge University boat club. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1), 185-207.
36. Lounsbury, M. (2001). Institutional sources of practice variation: Staffing college and university recycling programs. Administrative Science Quarterly, 46(1), 29-56.
37. Love, E. G., & Kraatz, M. (2009). Character, conformity, or the bottom line? How and why downsizing affected corporate reputation. Academy of Management Journal, 52, 314-335.
38. Margolis, J. D., & Walsh, J. P. (2003). Misery loves companies: Rethinking social initiatives by business. Administrative Science Quarterly, 48(2), 268-305.
39. Martin, K. D., Cullen, J. B., Johnson, J. L., & Parboteeah, K. P. (2007). Deciding to bribe: A cross-level analysis of firm and home country influences on bribery activity. Academy of Management Journal, 50(6), 1401-1422.
40. McKnight, P. E., McKnight, K. M., Sidani, S., & Figueredo, A. J. (2007). Missing data: A gentle introduction. New York, NY: The Guildford Press.
41. Metzger, M., Dalton, D. R., & Hill, J. W. (1993). The organization of ethics and the ethics of organizations: The case for expanded organizational ethics audits. Business Ethics Quarterly, 3(1), 27-43.
42. Meyer, J. W. & Rowan, B. (1977). Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony. The American Journal of Sociology, 83(2), 340-363.
43. Miller, G. S. (2006). The press as a watchdog for accounting fraud. Journal of Accounting Research, 44(5), 1001-1033.
44. Milliken, F. J., Morrison, E. W., & Hewlin, P. F. (2003). An exploratory study of employee silence: Issues that employees don't communicate upward and why. Journal of Management Studies, 40(6), 1453-1476.
45. Morrison, E. W. (2011). Employee voice behavior: Integration and directions for future research. The Academy of Management Annals, 5(1), 373-412.
46. Morrison, E. W. & Milliken, F. J. (2000). Organizational silence: A barrier to change and development in a pluralistic world. The Academy of Management Review, 25(4), 706-725.
47. Nickerson, R. S. (1998). Confirmation bias: A ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises. Review of General Psychology, 2(2), 175-220.
48. Ocasio, W. (1997). Towards an attention-based view of the firm. Strategic Management Journal, 18(6), 187-206.
49. Ocasio, W. (2011). Attention to attention. Organization Science, 22(5), 1286-1296.
50. Oliver, C. (1992). The antecedents of deinstitutionalization. Organization Studies, 13(4), 563.
51. Parmar, B. L., Freeman, R. E., Harrison, J. S., Wicks, A. C., Purnell, L., & de Colle, S. (2010). Stakeholder theory: The state of the art. The Academy of Management Annals, 4, 403-445.
52. Pearsall, M. J., & Ellis, A. P. J. (2011). Thick as thieves: The effects of ethical orientation and psychological safety on unethical team behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(2), 12.
53. Podsakoff, P. M., MacKenzie, S. B., Lee, J.-Y., & Podsakoff, N. P. (2003). Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88(5), 879.
54. Podsakoff, P. M., & Organ, D. W. (1986). Self-reports in organizational research: Problems and prospects. Journal of Management, 12, 531.
55. Powell, W. W. (1996). On the nature of institutional embeddedness: Labels vs explanation. In J. A. C. Baum & J. E. Dutton (Eds.), Advances in strategic management: The embeddedness of strategy (Vol. 13, pp. 293-300). Greenwich, CT: Jai Press Inc.
56. Rao, H., & Sivakumar, K. (1999). Institutional sources of boundary-spanning structures: The establishment of investor relations departments in the fortune 500 industrials. Organization Science, 10(1), 27-42.
57. Rhee, M., & Haunschild, P. R. (2006). The liability of good reputation: A study of product recalls in the U.S. automobile industry. Organization Science, 17(1), 101-117.
58. Rindova, V. P., Pollock, T. G., & Hayward, M. L. A. (2006). Celebrity firms: The social construction of market popularity. Academy of Management Review, 31(1), 50-71.
59. Rynes, S. L., Bartunek, J. M., Dutton, J. E., & Margolis, J. D. (2010). Special topic forum call for papers: Understanding and creating caring and compassionate organizations. Academy of Management Review, 53(1), 2.
60. Scott, W. R. (2014). Institutions and organizations: Ideas, interests, and identities (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
61. Selznick, P. (1957). Leadership in administration. New York, NY: Harper & Row.
62. Selznick, P. (1966). TVA and the grass roots: A study in the sociology of formal organization. New York, NY: Harper & Row.
63. Selznick, P. (1992). The moral commonwealth: Social theory and the promise of community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
64. Selznick, P. (1996). Institutionalism "old" and "new". Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(2), 270-277.
65. Selznick, P. (2000). On sustaining research agendas: Their moral and scientific basis. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(3), 277-282.
66. Shaver, J. M. (2005). Testing for mediating variables in management research: Concerns, implications, and alternative strategies. Journal of Management, 31(3), 330-353.
67. Stinchcombe, A. L. (1997). On the virtues of the old institutionalism. Annual Review of Sociology, 23(1), 1-18.
68. Suddaby, R., Elsbach, K. D., Greenwood, R., Meyer, J. W., & Zilber, T. B. (2010). Organizations and their institutional environments: Bringing meaning, values, and culture back in: Introduction to the special research forum. Academy of Management Journal, 53(6), 1234-1240.
69. Sullivan, B. N., Haunschild, P., & Page, K. (2007). Organizations non gratae? The impact of unethical corporate acts on interorganizational networks. Organization Science, 18(1), 55-70.
70. The Economist. (2011). The view from the top, and bottom, September 24, p. 76.
71. Trevino, L. K., Weaver, G. R., & Reynolds, S. J. (2006). Behavioral ethics in organizations: A review. Journal of Management, 32(6), 951-990.
72. Weaver, G. R., Treviño, L. K., & Cochran, P. L. (1999a). Corporate ethics programs as control systems: Influences of executive commitment and environmental factors. Academy of Management Journal, 42(1), 41-57.
73. Weaver, G. R., Treviño, L. K., & Cochran, P. L. (1999b). Integrated and decoupled corporate social performance: Management commitments, external pressures, and corporate ethics practices. Academy of Management Journal, 42(5), 539-552.
74. Weber, J., & Fortun, D. (2005). Ethics and compliance officer profile: Survey, comparison, and recommendations. Business & Society Review, 110(2), 97-115.
75. Weick, K. E. (1976). Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems. Administrative Science Quarterly, 21(1), 1-19.
76. Zilber, T. B. (2009). Institutional maintenance as narrative acts. In T. B. Lawrence et al. (Eds.), Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations (pp. 205-235). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.