In search of excellence: Fads, success stories, and adaptive emulation

The faddishness of the business community is often noted and lamented but not well understood by standard models of innovation and diffusion. We combine arguments about organizational cognition and institutional mimicry to develop a model of adaptive emulation, where firms respond to perceived failu...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American journal of sociology 2001-07, Vol.107 (1), p.147-182
Hauptverfasser:	STRANG, David, MACY, Michael W
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adoption of Innovations Aerospace Education Behaviour Business Business community Consulting firms Cyclic changes Cyclical Processes Decision making Diffusion Employees Enterprises Fads Failure Fashion Imitation Innovation Innovations Management Manufacturing Organizational Behavior Organizations Productivity Quality circles Quality Control Social Influences Social Networks Sociology Sociology of organizations Sociology of organizations and enterprises. Bureaucracy and administration Sociology of work and sociology of organizations Success Total quality
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Zusammenfassung:	The faddishness of the business community is often noted and lamented but not well understood by standard models of innovation and diffusion. We combine arguments about organizational cognition and institutional mimicry to develop a model of adaptive emulation, where firms respond to perceived failure by imitating their most successful peers.
ISSN:	0002-9602 1537-5390
DOI:	10.1086/323039