Institutional Theory in Tourism and Hospitality

Institutional analysis and tourism Disciplinary foundations Institutional theory in sociology Institutional theory in political science Institutional theory in economics Institutional theory in business studies Types of legitimacy Institutional theory: an interdisciplinary synthesis?Institutional analysis The layers of the institutional environment Multi-scaled analysis Are institutions immortal?Conclusions Using theory: methodological issues References

Institutional Theory
Institutional theories can be considered under two main headings: old institutionalism and new institutionalism (DiMaggio and Powell 1991; Hirsch and Lounsbury 1997). Old institutionalism views organisations as ‘closed systems’ (DiMaggio and Powell 1991; Hirsch and Lounsbury 1997). Influences outside...
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New institutional theory
Institutional theory is widely used to explain HRM practices and the factors that influence them (Heikkila, 2013). According to this theory, regardless of their relevance to actual performance accomplishment, organizations should pay attention to the institutional expectations of their environment in...
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Institutional Theories
The institutional branch of organization theory (Zucker, 1983, 1987; DiMaggio and Powell, 1991; Perrow, 1993; Galaskiewicz and Bielefeld, 1998; Scott and Davis, 2007), which views environmental NGOs as institutionalized structures, provides additional insights about how they behave. Organizations are...
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Institutional analysis and tourism
An introduction Introduction Institutions are a fundamental building block of society and of its study. Although there is no single agreed definition, an institution represents a social order or pattern that has attained a certain state and which helps establish the “rules of the game” (Hotimsky...
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Institutional theory in sociology
From an institutional perspective, sociology examines the links between institution-organisation interactions (e.g. Meyer, 2008; Scott, 2005), institutional and organisation change (e.g. D’Aunno et al., 2000), and organisational responses to institutional complexity (e.g. Ahmadjian, 2016; Greenwood...
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Institutional theory in political science
Institutions have been referred to as "the roots of political science” (Peters, 2012, p. 1). Old institutionalism was based on two theoretical foundations: behaviouralism and rational choice. Both imply that individuals make their decisions autonomously, regardless of formal and informal institutional...
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Institutional theory in economics
Institutional theory in economics originated in the late 19th century in Germany and Austria and was further shaped by US scholars. Veblen (1909) challenged the traditional assumption that individual behaviour is calculated and contended that individual behaviour is driven by habits (see Table 2.3)....
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Institutional theory in business studies
Marketing Since the call for addressing institutional analysis more rigorously was made by Yang and Su (2014), the examination of institutional theory in business marketing has grown significantly (Theingi et al., 2017). Institutional theoryhas been applied to marketing in several ways....
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Institutional theory: an interdisciplinary synthesis?
Although theoretical perspectives of institutional theory in the different disciplines have different emphases, there are significant intersections between them, which provides significant insights on institutional theory. Figure 2.2 illustrates four main configurations, namely, exchange Business...
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A glimpse into institutional theory
Organizations and institutions sharing the same goals generally have similar actions (Scott, 2014). IT suggests that change is triggered primarily by exogenous Institutional pressures 71 shocks that disrupt the current situation in a field and lead to periods of innovation. Institutional theory...
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