From smoke and mirrors to walking the talk: Decoupling in the contemporary world

P Bromley, WW Powell - Academy of Management annals, 2012 - journals.aom.org
The pervasive spread of rationalizing trends in society, such as the growing influence of
managerial sciences and increasing emphases on accountability and transparency, has …

Decoupling under scrutiny: Consistency of managerial talk and action in the age of nonprofit accountability

C Brandtner - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Decoupling theory suggests inconsistencies in what nonprofits do and what they claim to do.
Accountability is a potential antidote to such inconsistencies in the nonprofit sector. To test …

“There is an eye on us”: International imitation, popular representation, and the regulation of homosexuality in Senegal

JL Ferguson - American Sociological Review, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on data from Senegal, this article develops the concept of pockets of world society
to explain how adherence to a liberal vision of gay rights emerges within an otherwise …

The organizational reasons for wrongdoing. The case of Italy's Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM)

M Catino, C Dallara, S Rocchi - Crime, Law and Social Change, 2023 - Springer
Many scholars have highlighted the individual, organizational and inter-organizational
causes of organizational wrongdoing; others have focused on its (negative) consequences …

Diffusion of foreign management practices across Turkish business organizations: A contextualized theory

Ş Özen, Ç Önder - International Studies of Management & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper advances a contextualized theory concerning the spread of foreign management
practices across Turkish business organizations. Drawing on the pertinent empirical …