Institutional evolution and change: Environmentalism and the US chemical industry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hoffman, AJ
• 署名单位: Boston University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/257008
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 351-371
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL-CHANGE; public-opinion; responses; DYNAMICS; JOLTS; old; OIL

摘要

This study measured changes in the constituency of an organizational field centered around the issue of corporate environmentalism in the period 1960-93, correlating those changes with the institutions adopted by the U.S. chemical industry to interpret the issue. The article develops the ideas that fields form around issues, not markets or technologies; within fields, competing institutions may simultaneously exist; as institutions evolve, connections between their regulative, normative, and cognitive aspects arise; and field-level analyses can reveal the cultural and institutional origins of organizational impacts on the natural environment.