PRECARIOUS VALUES AND MUNDANE INNOVATIONS: ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT IN AMERICAN LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kraatz, Matthew S.; Ventresca, Marc J.; Deng, Lina
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Oxford; University of Oxford; University of Oxford
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2010.57319260
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 1521-1545
• 关键词: transformation; ORGANIZATIONS; old; INSTITUTIONALISM; CONSEQUENCES; Isomorphism; conformity; diffusion; responses; industry

摘要

Drawing primarily from Selznick's institutionalism, we make a general case for renewed attention to the mundane administrative arrangements that underlie the organizational capacity for value realization and a particular case for the study of value-subverting management innovations. An empirical study of enrollment management in liberal arts colleges reveals this ostensibly innocuous innovation's value-undermining effects and identifies the organizational and environmental factors that have made these venerable organizations more or less susceptible to its adoption.