The Influence of Institutional Environment on Environmental Practices and Its Impact on Regional Development

2018 ◽  
pp. 437-459
Author(s):  
María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Institutional Influence

This chapter studied the institutional influence associated to environmental practices in hotels. The aim was to interpret whether it was the normative, coercive or mimetic pressures (Institutional pressures) that influenced the three, four and five star hotels in north of Portugal and Galicia (a gender perspective). In order to accomplish these objectives, the author used an investigation model that connects institutional context pressures with environmental practices and environmental practices with legitimacy. To study used the Institutional Theory as theoretical reference.

The Influence of Institutional Environment on Quality Practices and Its Impact on Regional Development

2016 ◽  
pp. 165-187
Author(s):  
María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Quality Practices ◽  
Institutional Influence

This chapter studied the institutional influence associated to quality practices in hotels. The aim was to interpret whether it was the normative, coercive or mimetic pressures (Institutional pressures) that influenced the three, four and five star hotels in north of Portugal. In order to accomplish these objectives the author used an investigation model that connects institutional context pressures with quality practices and quality practices with legitimacy. To study used the Institutional Theory as theoretical reference.

The impact of transaction costs and institutional pressure on supplier environmental practices

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 353-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy L. Tate ◽  
Lisa M. Ellram ◽  
Kevin J. Dooley
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environmental Practice ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – Suppliers play a more significant role in the environmental footprint of supply chains than most final manufacturers. The purpose of this paper is to apply transaction costs and institutional theory to help understand why the more conservative, or reactive suppliers may or may not be likely to adopt environmental practices. Design/methodology/approach – This research builds on a prior conceptual paper and uses the results of a survey to test whether transaction costs and institutional theory can provide insight into supplier's adoption of environmental practices. Findings – This research finds that perceived transaction costs affect supplier cooperation in adopting environmental practices. Suppliers are more likely to adopt an environmental practice if information-seeking costs are low or the cost of adoption is considered necessary to maintain the relationship. Data did not support the hypotheses concerning institutional pressures. Originality/value – There is much research in the area of proactive adoption of environmental business practices. This research looks specifically at what influences the adoption of environmental business practices by suppliers that are more reactive or hesitant to be leaders in this area.

scholarly journals Institutional Pressures and Green Practices in Small Agricultural Businesses in Mexico: The Mediating Effect of Farmers’ Environmental Concern

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gricelda Juárez-Luis ◽  
Patricia Sánchez-Medina ◽  
René Díaz-Pichardo
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
The Relationship

Based on institutional theory, this study develops the understanding of how the institutional environment influences the propensity to adopt green practices. Taking into consideration the limitations of institutional theory, this research explores the mediating role of farmers’ environmental concern in the relationship between institutional pressures and green practices. Environmental concern is a factor that can explain why businesses are heterogeneous in their green practices and stances even though they are embedded in the same institutional environment. Data obtained from 130 small businesses in the agricultural sector in Oaxaca, Mexico, reveal that institutional pressures influence green practices directly. The results also reveal that farmers’ environmental concern partially mediates the relationship between these variables. This study tests the applicability of the theoretical framework of the institutional theory in this context and contributes to this theory by considering the role of the farmer. Specifically, it addresses environmental concern as a means through which businesses respond to institutional pressures, and how farmers implement green practices as a means for legitimacy. Environmental concern motivates environmental behavior in search of environmental conservation, but farmers mainly implement green practices to survive in the market in response to institutional pressures.

Institutions as the Ordering Factor and as the Destabilizing Force: New Institutional and Post Keynesian Perspectives

2006 ◽  
pp. 102-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Skorobogatov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Forward Contracts

The paper is dedicated to the New Institutional and Post Keynesian perspectives on institutions and their relation to economic stability. Embeddedness, institutional environment, and institutional arrangements are considered. Within these institutions conventional expectations, the economic policy and forward contracts are analyzed. Upon these perspectives the author shows a contradictory relation between institutions and the order and develops an institutional theory of business cycles.

Institutional context and hotel social responsibility

Kybernetes ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 413-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández ◽  
Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez ◽  
Paula Remoaldo
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Content Type

Purpose – The authors want to study the connection between institutional theory and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the set of hotels with three, four and five star situated in Galicia (Spain) and in the Northern region of Portugal. The authors aim to see whether there is a contrast of isomorphic behaviour in the institutional context of both regions. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative study in which the authors apply the partial least square (PLS) technique, a methodology based on structural equations models using the software Visual-PLS. The authors intend to study the relationships between the pressures of institutional context and CSR practices, together with the relationship between legitimacy and these practices. The focus of the proposed model is based on the system theory. Findings – The main findings of this research clearly show that hotels are incorporated into an institutional context marked by enforced and regulatory pressures. Research limitations/implications – The proposed research model can be replicated using other units of study, sectors, geographic areas, among others, due to the explanatory capacity of the theoretical framework used. Originality/value – The originality of this work derives from the main contributions based on the theoretical framework (institutional theory and CSR), the object of study and geographical area (three, four and five star hotels located in Galicia and in the North of Portugal), the context (economic crisis), the field of study (private sphere) and the type of organizations (profit making).

Gender gap in innovation: an institutionalist explanation

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 410-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Carrasco
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Innovative Behaviour ◽  
And Gender

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to contribute to knowledge on innovation from a gender perspective, and to investigate how environment affects the process of innovation by women. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical study uses a Structural Equations Model of a Partial Least Squared (PLS) technique. Data of 40 countries from around the world were collected from 2008. Findings – Institutional environment matters for innovative activity by women. An innovative thinking is required for integrating the gender perspective in innovative milieus in order to enrich, diversify and promote stronger innovation activities, mobilising unexploited opportunities for managers in the business sector, and for policy makers in the public one. Research limitations/implications – A new sex-disaggregated dataset will allow us to enlarge and improve upon this study. A longitudinal study would be extremely useful, but for the moment, there are no available data of this kind. Practical implications – Policies designed to reduce the gap for women in innovation activities have to fight against gender segregation in the job market and gender differences in education and training. They must increase flexibility in the workplace, provide more help to conciliate family and working lives, and reduce the gap in family responsibilities taken on by women. Originality/value – This paper contributes to the cross-over of knowledge between innovation and gender, and reduces the lack of information on how external factors may impact innovative behaviour by gender.

Salience of multiple actors involved in formal and informal governance systems encouraging corporate social responsibility in an emerging market

2021 ◽  
pp. 102452942110172
Author(s):  
Mônica Cavalcanti Sá de Abreu ◽  
Rômulo Alves Soares ◽  
Robson Silva Rocha ◽  
João Maurício Gama Boaventura
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Informal Governance ◽  
Business Outcomes ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Multiple Actors

This paper evaluates the influence of multiple actors in both formal and informal governance systems on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. Drawing on institutional theory, a quantitative survey was developed and conducted of a sample of 140 firms in the electronics, food, textiles, toys and personal care sectors in Brazil. We examine how institutional pressures and firm-level agency influence the emergence of different patterns of CSR. We distinguish two clusters of companies: active companies identify business outcomes and actors that effectively exert an influence on their CSR practices, while passive companies consider institutional pressures to be of minor importance. Our contribution relates first, to institutional theory concerning the role of different actors in influencing the implementation of social and environmental practices; second, to the importance of collective coordination or its absence in shaping the specific characteristics of CSR; and third, to the agency of firms in responding to institutional pressures as being dependent on their perceptions of business outcomes. The theoretical insights drawn from this study should be applicable to similar countries, that is, to emerging but politically and economically unstable markets with marked social and economic inequalities.

Institutional inertia and practice variation

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Aksom
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Practice Variation ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Institutional Profile ◽  
Successful Change

PurposeInstitutional theory had been developed for the purpose of explaining widespread diffusion, mimetic adoption and institutionalization of organizational practices. However, further extensions of institutional theory are needed to explain a range of different institutional trajectories and organizational responses since institutionalized standards constitute a minority of all diffusing practices. The study presents a theoretical framework which offers guidelines for explaining and predicting various adoption, variation and post-adoption scenarios.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is primarily conceptual in nature, and the arguments are developed based on previous institutional theory and organizational change literature.FindingsThe notion of institutional inertia is proposed in order to provide a more detailed explanation of when and why organizations ignore, adopt, modify, maintain and abandon practices and the way intra-organizational institutional pressures shape, direct and constrain these processes. It is specified whether institutional inertia will be temporarily eclipsed or whether it will actively manifest itself during adoption, adaptation and maintaining attempts. The study distinguishes between four institutional profiles of organizational practices – institutionalized, institutionally friendly, neutral and contested practices – which can vary along three dimensions: accuracy, extensiveness and meaning. The variation and post-adoption outcomes for each of them can be completely characterized and predicted by only three parameters: the rate of institutional inertia, institutional profile of these practices and whether they are interpretatively flexible. In turn, an extent of intraorganizational institutional resistance to new practices is determined by their institutional profile and flexibility.Practical implicationsIt is expected that proposed theoretical explanations in this paper can offer insights into these empirical puzzles and supply a broader view of organizational and management changes. The study’s theoretical propositions help to understand what happens to organizational practices after they are handled by organizations, thus moving beyond the adoption/rejection dichotomy.Originality/valueThe paper explores and clarifies the nature of institutional inertia and offers an explanation of its manifestation in organizations over time and how it shapes organizational practices in the short and long run. It challenges a popular assumption in organizational literature that fast and revolutionary transition is a prerequisite for successful change. More broadly, the typology offered in this paper helps to explain whether and how organizations can successfully handle and complete their change and how far they can depart from institutional norms.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Review of Institutional Theory on Higher Education Institutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-401
Author(s):  
Pang Lien Hsu ◽  
Emerson Antonio Maccari ◽  
Marcos Rogério Mazieri ◽  
José Eduardo Storopoli
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Leadership In Higher Education ◽  
Bibliometric Review

In this study, we explore how institutional theory and its many subareas contributes, are utilized and applied to the area of higher education management’s research by their scholars. For this purpose, we performed a bibliometric analysis on 659 papers extracted from Web of Science database. As results we indicate five main clusters as foundation to the field: institutional theory; economic impact of entrepreneurship and universities; competitiveness of universities as businesses; service quality and; measurement and development of models for higher education. And 7 main clusters as subfields of research: Institutional Multiplicity; Institutional pressures on Higher Education; Higher Education Efficiency; Leadership in Higher Education; Entrepreneurial Higher Education; Academy & Professional relations and; Quality and Satisfaction in Higher Education.

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