WILLING AND ABLE: A GENERAL MODEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES TO NORMATIVE PRESSURES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Durand, Rodolphe; Hawn, Olga; Ioannou, Ioannis
• 署名单位: Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of London; London Business School
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2016.0107
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 299-320
• 关键词: corporate social-responsibility; INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEXITY; MANAGING LEGITIMACY; self-regulation; firm; management; attention; adoption; sustainability; Stakeholders

摘要

We develop a conceptual understanding of when and how organizations respond to normative pressures. More precisely, we examine two main factors underlying the willingness and ability of organizations to respond to an issue: issue salience and the cost-benefit analysis of resource mobilization. We suggest that decision makers' interpretation of issue salience in conjunction with their perception of the costs and benefits of taking action to address the issue generates five potential responses: symbolic compliance and symbolic conformity, substantive compliance and substantive conformity, and inaction. We extend the baseline model by examining a number of boundary conditions. By focusing on the willingness and ability of organizations to respond to normative pressures, and by adopting the issue as the unit of analysis, our model helps explain intraorganizational as well as interorganizational response heterogeneity to institutional complexity. We contribute to the institutional research tradition and offer useful implications for managerial practice, from strategic management to policy making.