Extant scholarship in organizational science explains the conditions under which organizational actors adopt established institutional practices. Organizational scientists have been less successful in explaining the origins of institutional practi...
The modern economy is high-paced and demanding, in part due to globalization's effect on business processes and expanded technological capabilities; as a result, employees can experience greater pressure and stress in the workplace that can lead t...
This dissertation aims to reveal the institutional dynamics in corporate political linkages as the extant literature largely fails to recognize that corporate political linkages are institutionally embedded. Specifically, three studies have been c...
Safety is often understood as freedom from unacceptable loss; reliability as the capacity to accomplish particular outcomes repeatedly through operational sensitivity. Both compel performance objectives for high-risk organizations. If either is ab...