Institutional isomorphism is the tendency of organizations in the same field to grow alike, chiefly for legitimacy rather than efficiency. It operates through coercive pressure from those they depend on, mimetic copying under uncertainty, and normative pressure from professionalization.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.