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Três interessantes estudos que em breve serão publicados pelos periódicos da Academy of Management:


SRF - Public policy: policy as myth and ceremony? The global spread of stock exchanges, 1980 - 2005  
Klaus Weber, Gerald F. Davis, Michael Lounsbury
Academy of Management Journal (Pre-print, Edição ainda não definida)

We examine the antecedents and consequences of creating a national stock exchange among developing countries, a core technology of financial globalization. We study local conditions and global institutional pressures in the rapid spread of exchanges since the 1980s, and examine how conditions at the point of adoption affected their subsequent vibrancy. Little prior research connects the process of diffusion with the operational performance of adopted policies. We find that international coercion was associated with more ceremonial adoption, but contrary to expectations common in institutional research, contagion processes via peer groups and normative emulation of prestigious actors enhanced vibrancy.

Institutionalization, Framing, and Diffusion: The Logic of TQM Adoption and Implementation Decisions among U.S. Hospitals
Mark Thomas Kennedy, Peer Christian Fiss
Academy of Management Journal (Pre-print, Edição ainda não definida)

We extend institutional theory’s account of diffusion by examining the interplay between economic and social considerations in adoption decisions. Drawing on organizational decision-making research, we argue that both early and late adopters respond to framing and interpreting adoption decision situations as opportunities versus threats. Using data on the diffusion of Total Quality Management (TQM) among U.S. hospitals, we find that motivations to appear legitimate coexist with motivations to realize economic performance improvement, and that issue perception is related to the extent of practice implementation. These findings prompt re-thinking of the classic institutional diffusion model.

Doctoral degree prestige and the academic marketplace: a study of career mobility within the management discipline
Arthur G. Bedeian, David Eduardo Cavazos, James G. Hunt, Lawrence R. Jauch
Academy of Management Learning & Education (Pre-print - Edição ainda não definida)

Using data collected from a national sample of 171 PhDs who were awarded terminal degrees in management between 1977 and 1987, we tested 4 hypotheses concerning career mobility within the management discipline. We found (a) doctoral origin prestige had a direct effect on the prestige of a graduate's initial academic appointment, (b) doctoral origin prestige interacted with perceived quality of publications such that, early in their careers, graduates of more prestigious doctoral programs obtained greater job placement benefits (in terms of more prestigious initial academic appointments) from the perceived quality of their publications than did graduates of less prestigious doctoral programs, (c) later in their careers, individuals who secured more prestigious initial academic appointments held more prestigious academic appointments than individuals with less prestigious initial academic appointments, and (d) at a later career stage, initial appointment prestige interacted with perceived quality of publications such that individuals with more prestigious initial academic appointments obtained greater job placement benefits from the perceived quality of their publications than did individuals with less prestigious initial academic appointments. Our results suggest that recruitment patterns in the management discipline reflect an inherent academic stratification system and that doctoral origin prestige is an important determinant of early and later career opportunities.