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To examine how early-adopter organizations justify and communicate radical, institutionalized structural innovations to key stakeholders.

September 1, 2000Administrative Science Quarterly

Presenting Structural Innovation in an Institutional Environment: Hospitals' Use of Impression Management

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MAMargarete ArndtClark University BBBarbara BigelowClark University

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Content analysis reveals defensive impression management during structural restructuring in early-adopter hospitals, indicating strategic agency during early institutional change.

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To examine how early-adopter organizations justify and communicate radical, institutionalized structural innovations to key stakeholders.
Conducted a content analysis of annual reports from hospitals adopting a diversified corporate structure.
Evaluated organizational framing strategies across diverse hospital characteristics during announcements of institutional structural change.
Hospitals uniformly relied on preventive, defensive impression management when introducing diversified corporate frameworks, regardless of other organizational differences.
Organizations framed novel structures as responses to coercive and mimetic pressures while actively associating innovations with legitimated, familiar institutional practices.

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Arndt et al. (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1308d972dbc73dabc07c62 https://doi.org/10.2307/2667107

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Content analysis reveals defensive impression management during structural restructuring in early-adopter hospitals, indicating strategic agency during early institutional change.

Presenting Structural Innovation in an Institutional Environment: Hospitals' Use of Impression Management

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Presenting Structural Innovation in an Institutional Environment: Hospitals' Use of Impression Management

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