When accreditation standards change: Factors affecting differential responsiveness of public and private organizations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Casile, M; Davis-Blake, A
• 署名单位: University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/3069291
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 180-195
• 关键词: FORMAL-STRUCTURE; MODEL; privatization; CONSEQUENCES; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; TRANSFORMATION; environments; PERSPECTIVE; contagion; SPREAD

摘要

We examine how technical and institutional factors affect the responsiveness of public and private organizations to a change in accreditation standards. We found that market niche and ties to an accrediting organization affected the responsiveness of both types of organizations. However, technical factors (potential economic gains from accreditation) had a greater effect on the responsiveness of private organizations, and institutional factors (diffusion through both social cohesion and structural equivalence) had a greater effect on the responsiveness of public organizations.