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Building an Institutional Field to Corral a Government: A Case to Set an Agenda for Organization Studies
Abstract
Although organizational theorists have given much attention to how environments shape organizations, they have given much less attention to how organizations mold their environments. This paper demonstrates what organizational scholars could contribute if they were to study how organizations shape environments. Specifically, the paper synthesizes work by historians, political scientists and students of corporate political action to document how corporations systematically built an institutional field during the 1970s and 1980s to exert greater influence on the US Federal government. The resulting network, composed of nine distinct populations of organizations and the relationships that bind them into a system, channels and amplifies corporate political influence, while simultaneously shielding corporations from appearing to directly influence Congress and the administration.
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- Authors
- Barley, S. R.
- Venue
- Organization Studies
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-06
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 777-805
- ISSN
- 0170-8406 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-3044
- OpenAlex
- W2102661085
- Cited by
- 295
- References
- 92
- FWCI
- 30.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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