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- July/August 2004
- Article
Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: An Institutional Framework
By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
Despite burgeoning research on companies' environmental strategies and environmental management practices, it remains unclear why some firms adopt environmental management practices beyond regulatory compliance. This paper leverages institutional theory by proposing... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Environmental Management; Adoption; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Organizational Structure; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Framework; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Delmas, Magali, and Michael W. Toffel. "Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: An Institutional Framework." Business Strategy and the Environment 13, no. 4 (July/August 2004): 209–222.
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
institutional theorists from around the world gathered at Harvard Business School to address head-on how institutional theory research and tools can help practitioners address... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- Awards
Academy of Management, Organization and Management Theory Division. Best Symposium Award
Selected as a finalist for the 2012 Best Symposium Award for “Fields of Gold: Mining the Origins, Definitions, and Assumptions Attending Institutional Fields” from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
Crowdfunding as 'Donations': Theory & Evidence
By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Toke Reichstein and Francesco Rullani
For a wide class of crowdfunding approaches, we argue that the reward structure (for funders) is closer to that of charitable donations to public goods than it is to traditional entrepreneurial finance. Many features of the design of crowdfunding platforms can... View Details
Keywords: Crowdfunding Platforms; Entrepreneurial Finance; Free-riding; Voluntary Contributions To Public Goods; Online Technology; Entrepreneurship; Social and Collaborative Networks; Finance; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
Boudreau, Kevin J., Lars Bo Jeppesen, Toke Reichstein, and Francesco Rullani. "Crowdfunding as 'Donations': Theory & Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-038, September 2015.
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms
Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Practice; Conflict of Interests; Social Issues; Theory
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-119, May 2011.
- 2012
- Chapter
Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy
By: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with institutional sociology, which emphasizes the importance... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Natural Environment; Business Strategy
Delmas, Magali A., and Michael W. Toffel. "Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy." In The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, edited by Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- 07 Jun 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- April 2012
- Article
Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change
By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
We develop a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented... View Details
Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change." Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 2 (April 2012).
- Forthcoming
- Article
The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions
By: Jared Finnegan, Phillip Lipscy, Jonas Meckling and Florence Metz
Why are some governments more effective in promoting economic change than others?
We develop a theory of the institutional sources of economic transformation. Institutions can
facilitate transformation through two central mechanisms: insulation and compensation.... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Business and Government Relations; Supply and Industry; Demand and Consumers; Transformation; Economic Systems; Climate Change
Finnegan, Jared, Phillip Lipscy, Jonas Meckling, and Florence Metz. "The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions." Journal of Politics (forthcoming).
- 2021
- Working Paper
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions
By: Robert C. Merton and Richard T. Thakor
This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of a no-fault-default debt structure as an alternative to the typical bankruptcy process. We show that the deadweight costs of bankruptcy can be avoided or substantially reduced through no-fault-default debt, which permits a... View Details
Keywords: No-fault Default; Chapter 11; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Institutions; Contracts
Merton, Robert C., and Richard T. Thakor. "No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28341, January 2021.
- Web
Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Biography Biography Career Timeline Biography Michael... View Details
- 2002
- Book
Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Marc Ventresca
This book brings together emerging perspectives from organization theory and management, environmental sociology, international regime studies, and the social studies of science and technology to provide a starting point for discipline-based studies of environmental... View Details
Hoffman, Andrew J., and Marc Ventresca, eds. Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives. Stanford University Press, 2002.
- 2018
- Book
Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings
Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era applies organization theory to a grand challenge: our entry into the Anthropocene era, a period marked not only by human impact on climate change, but on chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation. It... View Details
Keywords: Organization Theory; Environmental Management; Policy; Social Issues; Social Entrepreneurship; Pollutants
Hoffman, Andrew J., and P. Devereaux Jennings. Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era. Cambridge University Press, 2018. (Winner of the 2019 Best Book Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory
By: Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino
This working paper examines the historical origins, evolutionary paths, and long-term resilience of diversified business groups in contemporary developed economies of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. It aims to come up with a new theoretical understanding of... View Details
Colpan, Asli M., and Takashi Hikino. "Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-035, October 2016.
- 2006
- Comment
The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm: A History of Corporate Ownership in Canada
By: Jordan I. Siegel
This chapter features an admirable effort by by Morck, Percy, Tian, and Yeung to apply recent developments in law and finance theory to a longitudinal country-level case study. The authors closely examine nearly 500 years of Canadian corporate governance and analyze... View Details
Siegel, Jordan I. Comment on "The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm: A History of Corporate Ownership in Canada." A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers, edited by Randall K. Morck. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Research Summary
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- October 2013
- Article
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
By: Anil R. Doshi, Glen W.S. Dowell and Michael W. Toffel
Mandatory information disclosure regulations seek to create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments' responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we... View Details
Keywords: Information Disclosure; Institutional Theory; Environmental Strategy; Mandatory Disclosure; Environmental Performance; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Doshi, Anil R., Glen W.S. Dowell, and Michael W. Toffel. "How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure." Strategic Management Journal 34, no. 10 (October 2013): 1209–1231. (Featured in The Regulatory Review.)
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
A new Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), directed by Michael E. Porter, opened at HBS in July. The interdisciplinary ISC is dedicated to enlarging and disseminating the body of research on competition and strategy pioneered... View Details
- March 2013
- Article
Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities
By: Andras Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis
Geographic communities have been shown to affect organizations through their enduring features, but less attention has been given to communities as sites of human-made and natural events that occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Communities; Punctuated Equilibrium; Corporate Social Responsibility; Institutional Theory; Natural Disasters; Situation or Environment; Balance and Stability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
Tilcsik, Andras, and Christopher Marquis. "Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities." Administrative Science Quarterly 58, no. 1 (March 2013): 111–148.
- 09 Mar 2020
- Working Paper Summaries