Cognitive underpinnings of institutional persistence and change: A framing perspective

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: George, E; Chattopadhyay, P; Sitkin, SB; Barden, JQ
• 署名单位: Duke University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 347-365
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY; TOP MANAGEMENT; SELECTIVE PERCEPTION; STRATEGIC ISSUES; FORMAL-STRUCTURE; RISK; MODEL; TRANSFORMATION; entrepreneurship; determinants

摘要

We integrate the predictions of prospect theory, the threat-rigidity hypothesis, and institutional theory to suggest how patterns of institutional persistence and change depend on whether decision makers view environmental shifts as potential opportunities for or threats to gaining legitimacy. We argue that in the event that decision makers face ambiguity in their reading of the environment, they initiate decoupled substantive and symbolic actions that simultaneously accommodate the predictions of prospect theory and the threat-rigidity hypothesis.