The Emergence of Self-Regulatory Organizations as Institutional Change
Block, Emily Sarah
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Title
The Emergence of Self-Regulatory Organizations as Institutional Change
Author(s)
Block, Emily Sarah
Issue Date
2009
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Kraatz, Matthew S.
Department of Study
Business Administration
Discipline
Business Administration
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Business Administration, Management
Language
eng
Abstract
Despite the popularity of self-regulatory organizations in practice, from the perspective of organizational theory these organizations remain much a mystery. Research on institutional change suggests that the very organizations that self-regulation scholars identify as most likely to either become or spin off self-regulatory organizations are likely to resist the changes that precipitate self-regulation's emergence (Andrews, 2002; Mottl, 1980; Zald & Ussem, 1987). The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the process through which self-regulatory organizations emerge from traditional industry associations. By selecting a single prototypical case of the effective emergence of a self-regulatory organization from an existing industry level organization, I aim to understand the process and drivers of this significant organizational transformation. The case that I analyze is the development of an environmental self-regulatory certification system in the US Forest Products Industry, significant organizational transformation. I focus on two broad questions; (1) how did structural elements of the self-regulatory organization and its relationship with its external environment change in a way that allowed the organization to be taken seriously as an effective self-regulatory body, and (2) how did the rhetoric of the self-regulatory organization facilitate and contextualize these structural changes. I argue that rhetoric combines with more concrete changes, enabling industry associations to create effective self-regulatory bodies and therefore attempt to exert control and manage the rate and nature of environmental change.
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