Who Does an Elite Organization Emulate?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Still, Mary C.; Strang, David
• 署名单位: George Washington University; Cornell University
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• DOI: 10.2189/asqu.2009.54.1.58
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 58-89
• 关键词: INTERORGANIZATIONAL IMITATION; MIMETIC ISOMORPHISM; EXECUTIVE MIGRATION; STRATEGIC CHANGE; diffusion; MODEL; INTERLOCKS; INNOVATION; adoption; industry

摘要

We advance theories of the diffusion of innovations by examining the structure of emulation that emerged in one bank's benchmarking program. Prestigious firms and firms linked to the bank through executive migration were disproportionately likely to be recruited as benchmarking partners and, once visited, to be highly influential. Firms tied to the bank by board interlocks and geographic proximity were neither overrepresented nor influential. The bank also paid modest attention to other financial service providers, particularly rival money centers. These relationships hold net of area-specific recognition for excellence, which promotes attention but not influence, and financial performance, which affects neither. We emphasize the way organizational identity and decision-making processes activate and deactivate network ties as potential channels of innovation diffusion.(.)