摘要:From then on, the study of organizations would not be the same. these roots took hold and (to continue the analogy) a sturdy, highly variegated tree has resulted! elaboration of the institutional perspective has expanded to the point where it is now the dominant approach within organization theory.Initially, much attention centered upon understanding institutional diffusion, especially the influence of mimetic processes. We learned how ideas diffuse through interlocking directorates, and explored the roles played by certain organizations as exemplars or models. this early preoccupation with diffusion, which dominated the 1990s, gave early indications of three features of institutional scholarship that still characterize work in this area: first, a consistently imaginative extension of its central ideas ¨C as was illustrated early on by the distinctive approach to diffusion taken by scandinavian researchers, who highlighted translation as a feature of diffusion (see czarniawska & Joerges, 1996; sahlin & wedlin, 2008);