The DOI matches its Crossref record; 30 of the 30 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Institutional Environments and Resource Dependence: Sources of Administrative Structure in Institutions of Higher Education
Abstract
Two theoretical perspectives are combined to explain the pattern of administrative offices in public and private institutions of higher education. The first perspective, resource dependence, is used to show that the need to ensure a stable flow of resources from external sources of support partially determines administrative differentiation. The second perspective, institutionalization, emphasizes the common understandings and social definitions of organizational behavior and structure considered appropriate and nonproblematic and suggests conditions under which dependency will and will not predict the number of administrative offices that manage funding relations. The results of the analyses indicate that dependence on nontraditional sources of support is a strong predictor of administrative differentiation and demonstrate the validity of integrating these two theoretical perspectives.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
DiMaggio, P. J., & Powell, W. W. (1983) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/2095101 · Cited by 38,435
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
Meyer, J. W., & Rowan, B. (1977) · American Journal of Sociology · doi:10.1086/226550 · Cited by 28,308
DiMaggio, P. J., & Powell, W. W. (2004) · Advances in Strategic Management · doi:10.1016/s0742-3322(00)17011-1 · Cited by 25,802
Spence, M. (1973) · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · doi:10.2307/1882010 · Cited by 16,171
Limited-dependent and qualitative variables in econometrics
Maddala, G. S. (1983) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511810176 · Cited by 13,240
The Principles of Scientific Management.
Woolf, L. S., Taylor, F. W., Scott, W. D., & Goldmark, J. (1912) · The Economic Journal · doi:10.2307/2221959 · Cited by 5,256
Principles of Scientific Management, The
(2015) · The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society · doi:10.4135/9781452206905.n541 · Cited by 5,038
The External Control of Organizations.
Benson, J. K., Pfeffer, J., & Salancik, G. R. (1978) · Administrative Science Quarterly · doi:10.2307/2392573 · Cited by 4,945
The Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence
Zucker, L. G. (1977) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/2094862 · Cited by 3,068
Simon, H. A. (1950) · AJN, American Journal of Nursing · doi:10.1097/00000446-195002000-00071 · Cited by 3,004
Cited by
Organizational Theories: Some Criteria for Evaluation
Bacharach, S. B. (1989) · The Academy of Management Review · doi:10.5465/amr.1989.4308374 · Cited by 2,305
Predicting Intention to Adopt Interorganizational Linkages: An Institutional Perspective1
Teo, H. H., Wei, K. K., & Benbasat, I. (2003) · MIS Quarterly · doi:10.2307/30036518 · Cited by 1,639
Toward a Descriptive Stakeholder Theory: An Organizational Life Cycle Approach
Jawahar, I. M., & McLaughlin, G. L. (2001) · The Academy of Management Review · doi:10.2307/259184 · Cited by 1,205
Legitimacy as a Social Process
Johnson, C., Dowd, T. J., & Ridgeway, C. L. (2006) · Annual Review of Sociology · doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123101 · Cited by 1,027
The Public-Private Distinction in Organization Theory: A Critique and Research Strategy
Perry, J. L., & Rainey, H. G. (1988) · The Academy of Management Review · doi:10.2307/258571 · Cited by 911
Metadata
- Authors
- Tolbert, P. S.
- Venue
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1985-03
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1
- ISSN
- 0001-8392 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2010446703
- Cited by
- 473
- References
- 30
- FWCI
- 38.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Institutional Environments and Resource Dependence: Sources of Administrative Structure in Institutions of Higher Education. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2307/2392808
- The paper
- Tolbert, P. S. (1985). Institutional Environments and Resource Dependence: Sources of Administrative Structure in Institutions of Higher Education. Administrative Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392808
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
