Exhibit 1188 ยท Journal article
The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions.
Proposes that organizations in the same field become more alike through coercive pressure (law and dependence), mimetic copying under uncertainty and normative professional pressure, not through competition for efficiency. Full text read (scan hosted at gwern.net); text extraction interleaves the two columns, so only the abstract page was used for the quote.
- Source
- DiMaggio and Powell, American Sociological Review 48(2):147-160
- Date
- April 1983
- Quoted from
- Abstract, p. 147
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2095101
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Standing note: canonical and heavily cited; theory-heavy, supported by many case and panel studies; criticized for under-explaining change and agency. It supplies the "no coordination needed" mechanism.