Global competition, institutions, and the diffusion of organizational practices : the international spread of ISO 9000 quality certificates
By: GULER, Isin.
Contributor(s): GUILLEN, Mauro F | MUIR, John.
Material type: ArticlePublisher: 2002Administrative Science Quartely 47, 2, p. 207-232Abstract: We use panel data on ISO 9000 quality certification in countries between 1993 and 1998 to better understand the cross-national diffusion of an organizational practice. Following neoinstitutional theory, we focus on the coercive, normative and mimetic effects that result from the exposure of firms in a given country to a powerful source of critical resources, a common pool of relevant technical knowledge, and the experiences of firms located in other countries. We use social network theory to develop a systematic conceptual understanding of how firms located in different countries influence each other's rates of adoption as a result of cohesive and equivalent network relationships. Regression results provide support for our predictions that states and foreign multinationals are the key actors responsible for coercive isomorphism, cohesive trade relationships between countries generate coersive and normatie effects, and role-equivalent trade relation-ships result in learning-based and competitive imitationItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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We use panel data on ISO 9000 quality certification in countries between 1993 and 1998 to better understand the cross-national diffusion of an organizational practice. Following neoinstitutional theory, we focus on the coercive, normative and mimetic effects that result from the exposure of firms in a given country to a powerful source of critical resources, a common pool of relevant technical knowledge, and the experiences of firms located in other countries. We use social network theory to develop a systematic conceptual understanding of how firms located in different countries influence each other's rates of adoption as a result of cohesive and equivalent network relationships. Regression results provide support for our predictions that states and foreign multinationals are the key actors responsible for coercive isomorphism, cohesive trade relationships between countries generate coersive and normatie effects, and role-equivalent trade relation-ships result in learning-based and competitive imitation
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