Introduction - W Richard Scott
From Technology to Environment
PART ONE: THE INSTITUTIONAL ORIGINS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Institutionalized Organizations - John W Meyer and Brian Rowan
Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
Institutional and Technical Sources of Organizational Structure -
John W Meyer, W Richard Scott, and Terrence E Deal
Explaining the Structure of Educational Organizations
PART TWO: VARIETIES OF INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
The Structure of Educational Organizations - John W Meyer and Brian
Rowan
Health Care Organizations in the 1980s - W Richard Scott
The Convergence of Public and Professional Control Systems
Reform Movements and Organizations - W Richard Scott
The Case of Aging
The Organization of Societal Sectors - W Richard Scott and John W
Meyer
The Organization of Environments - W Richard Scott
Network, Cultural, and Historical Elements
PART THREE: FRAGMENTED CENTRALIZATION AND ITS ORGANIZATIONAL
CONSEQUENCES
Centralization of Funding and Control in Educational Governance -
John W Meyer
Centralization and the Legitimacy Problems of Local Government -
John W Meyer and W Richard Scott
Organizational Factors Affecting Legalization in Education - John W
Meyer
Innovation and Knowledge Use in American Public Education - John W
Meyer
Conclusion - John W Meyer
Institutionalization and the Rationality of Formal Organizational
Structure
W. Richard (Dick) Scott received his PhD from the University of
Chicago and is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Sociology with courtesy appointments in the Graduate School of
Business, Graduate School of Education, and School of Medicine at
Stanford University. He has spent his entire professional career at
Stanford, serving as chair of the Sociology Department (1972–1975),
as director of the Training Program on Organizations and Mental
Health (1972–1989), and as director of the Stanford Center for
Organizations Research (1988–1996).
Scott is an organizational sociologist who has concentrated his
work on the study of professional organizations, including
educational, engineering, medical, research, social welfare, and
nonprofit advocacy organizations. During the past three decades, he
has concentrated his writing and research on the relation between
organizations and their institutional environments. He is the
author or editor of about a dozen books and more than 200 articles
and book chapters.
He was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine (1975),
served as editor of the Annual Review of Sociology (1987–1991), and
as president of the Sociological Research Association (2006–2007).
Scott was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the
Management and Organization Theory Division of the Academy of
Management in 1988, the Distinguished Educator Award from the same
Division in 2013, and of the Richard D. Irwin Award for
Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management from the
Academy of Management in 1996. In 2000, the Section on
Organization, Occupations and Work of the American Sociological
Association created the W. Richard Scott Award to annually
recognize an outstanding article-length contribution to the field.
He has received honorary doctorates from the Copenhagen School of
Business (2000), the Helsinki School of Economics and Business
(2001), and Aarhus University in Denmark (2010).
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