Organizational responses to environmental demands
Subtitle: opening the black box
By: Magali A. Delmas, Michael W. Toffel
Contributors: Toffel, Michael W.; Harvard Business School. Division of Research
Edition: 2nd rev.
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 07-022; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 07-022
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Description: This paper combines new and old institutionalism to explain enduring differences in organizational strategies. We propose that differences in the influence of corporate departments lead their facilities to prioritize different external pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents who interact with particularly influential corporate departments are more likely to affect facility managers' decisions. As a result, managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents. Using an original survey and archival data obtained for nearly 500 facilities, we find support for these hypotheses.
Notes: "December 19, 2007"--Added t.p.

Revision of: Organizational response to environmental demands : opening the black box. June 12, 2007.

"Revised"--Publisher's website, 2006-2007.

Includes bibliographical references.