SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter DiMaggio: Convergent Evolution, Rationality
19 Dec 2018
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Dimaggio and powell: the iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective. Definition: how institutions change towards the same form adapt similar practices become isomorphic to bureaucracy. Constraining process since both institutions have same environmental conditions. All dace same constraint from environment (water) and need to find efficient way to get through water. Organizations also compete for legitimacy, socio/economic fitness, political power. 3 mechanisms through which institutional isomorphic change occurs (1) coercive isomorphism: pressure exerted on organizations by others upon which they are dependent and by societal cultural expectations, ex. Weber: bureaucracy was so efficient and powerful that the momentum of bureaucracy = irreversible. Weber: bureaucratization resulted from competition among capitalist firm, competition among states, and increasing rules needing to control. Authors: cause of bureaucratization have changed: they occur out of the structuration of organization fields. As organization fields emerge, they display diversity, but as a field gets well established, there is a push towards homogenization.
