Although institutional theory has become a more dominant perspective in information systems research, studies have only paid scant attention to how field dynamics and organizational processes coevolve during information technology institutionalization. Against this backdrop, we present a new conceptualization based on the “traveling of ideas” metaphor that distinguishes between theorization of ...

In 1990, Great Britain enacted the National Health Service and Community Care Act to reduce unnecessary institutionalization, improve coordination of community-based long-term care, and stimulate private service provision. An overview of four major principles of the legislation is provided: the elevation of the assessor/care manager role, the emphasis on inter-agency collaboration across the he...

A literature review was conducted aiming to understand the interface between the Intellectual Disability and Mental Health fields and to contribute to mitigating the path of institutionalizing individuals with intellectual deficiencies. The so-called dual diagnosis phenomenon remains underestimated in Brazil but is the object of research and specific public policy internationally. This phenomen...

Undergraduate education and degrees in Public Health have been debated for more than 15 years in Brazil. Such proposals have already been implemented in various parts of Europe and North America, but there is still no close correlation among the projects currently operating in the Brazilian context. In Brazil, this initiative was initially associated with the accumulated institutional experienc...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a discourse constructed through the constant dialogue and negotiation between corporations and their different stakeholders. This article examines how leading corporations in the United States and China discuss the rationales, themes, and practices of CSR on their corporate websites through a quantitative content analysis. The results, based on data coll...

GISELA TROMMSDORFF Technische Hochschule, Aachen HELMUT LAMM Universitat, Koln The present study is an analysis of the relationship between delinquency, institutionalization and future orientation, based on a social-learning theoretical framework. Two hundred and forty male adolescents (institutionalized and noninstitutionalized delinquents and nondelinquents) answered open and structured quest...

Many countries are in the earliest stage of reforming the care sector. Reformers face challenges as they develop public policy to expand family based care and shrink institutional care. To mention a few: installing the keystone component of care reform - a system to monitor and support children post-institutionalization; enabling children to grow up where they belong, in families; meeting child...

This article examines the influence of resource dependence and institutional processes on post-Civil Rights Act changes in private sector workplace segregation. We use data collected by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1966 through 2000 to examine organizations embedded within their firm, industry, local labor market and federal regulatory environments. Sex segregation decl...

Japan's level of defense expenditure relative to tbe size of its economy bas long been uniquely low among the major industrialized countries. As of 1995, Japan's expenditures stood at 0.96 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).' Even adding to this tbe approximately 0.3 percent of GDP devoted to pensions for retired personnel, the level of spending is considerably less than that of major West...