An Institutional And Network Perspective Of Organisational Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence From China′s Telecommunications Market

This perspective paper combines institutional and industrial network theory to develop a framework for analysing organisational legitimacy. The main subject, Nokia China, is found to be sensitive to network-legitimating initiatives, with consequences that accommodate multiple, conflicting stakeho...

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Main Author: Low, Brian
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Language:English
Published: Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2010
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description This perspective paper combines institutional and industrial network theory to develop a framework for analysing organisational legitimacy. The main subject, Nokia China, is found to be sensitive to network-legitimating initiatives, with consequences that accommodate multiple, conflicting stakeholders′ interests in China′s politically sensitive and protective telecommunications market. This paper offers new insights into institutional isomorphism that is manifested empirically as incremental conformity to regulative processes, institutional norms and cognitive knowledge and meanings within the environment, thereby extending commonly held views of institutional theory to include organisational legitimacy in industrial networks.
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spelling usm-365232017-09-18T01:07:36Z http://eprints.usm.my/36523/ An Institutional And Network Perspective Of Organisational Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence From China′s Telecommunications Market Low, Brian HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management This perspective paper combines institutional and industrial network theory to develop a framework for analysing organisational legitimacy. The main subject, Nokia China, is found to be sensitive to network-legitimating initiatives, with consequences that accommodate multiple, conflicting stakeholders′ interests in China′s politically sensitive and protective telecommunications market. This paper offers new insights into institutional isomorphism that is manifested empirically as incremental conformity to regulative processes, institutional norms and cognitive knowledge and meanings within the environment, thereby extending commonly held views of institutional theory to include organisational legitimacy in industrial networks. Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/36523/1/art_1_%28117-134_%29.pdf Low, Brian (2010) An Institutional And Network Perspective Of Organisational Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence From China′s Telecommunications Market. Asian Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ), 15 (2). pp. 1-18. ISSN 1394-2603 http://web.usm.my/aamj/15.2.2010/art%201%20%28117-134%20%29.pdf
spellingShingle HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management
Low, Brian
An Institutional And Network Perspective Of Organisational Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence From China′s Telecommunications Market
title An Institutional And Network Perspective Of Organisational Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence From China′s Telecommunications Market
title_full An Institutional And Network Perspective Of Organisational Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence From China′s Telecommunications Market
title_fullStr An Institutional And Network Perspective Of Organisational Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence From China′s Telecommunications Market
title_full_unstemmed An Institutional And Network Perspective Of Organisational Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence From China′s Telecommunications Market
title_short An Institutional And Network Perspective Of Organisational Legitimacy: Empirical Evidence From China′s Telecommunications Market
title_sort institutional and network perspective of organisational legitimacy: empirical evidence from china′s telecommunications market
topic HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management
url http://eprints.usm.my/36523/
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