C R Hinings
Biographic Data
| ID | 290087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C R Hinings |
| GIVEN NAMES | C R |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinings |
| SIGNATURE | HININGS C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Joseph Jupille and James A. Caporaso. Theories of Institutions
Fields, Institutional Infrastructure and Governance
Field or Fields? Building the Scaffolding for Cumulation of Research on Institutional Fields
The concept of an institutional field is one of the cornerstones of institutional theory, and yet the concept has been stretched both theoretically and empirically, making consolidation of findings across multiple studies more difficult. In this article, we review the literature and analyze empirical studies of institutional fields to build scaffolding for the cumulation of research on institutional fields. Our review revealed two types of fields…
Professions in Organizations
Organizational form, structure, and religious organizations
Organizational form, structure, and religious organizations
Restructuring the Professional Organization
In recent years the professions have undergone radical transformation. With the advent of rapidly changing markets, more sophisticated and demanding clients, deregulation and increased competition, the generalist professional partnerships have given way to larger, more corporate forms of organization, comprising increasingly autonomous specialist business units.This volume critically examines these changes through an examination of the archetypes…
Managing the Rivalry of Competing Institutional Logics
We investigated an organizational field where competing institutional logics existed for a lengthy period of time. We identified four mechanisms for managing the rivalry of competing logics that facilitated and strengthened the separate identities of key actors, thus providing a way for competing logics to co-exist and separately guide the behaviour of different actors. We contribute to the institutional literature by showing that competing logic…
Interlevel Influences on the Reconstruction of Professional Role Identity
Research on roles and identities generally represents a micro perspective that does not account for the reconstruction of professional role identity, owing to insufficient attention to institutional forces. We trace institutional influences on professional role identity reconstruction and extend theory by building bridges across institutional, organizational, and individual levels of analysis. Findings indicate that agentic reconstruction of prof…
The Recomposition of an Organizational Field
In this paper we develop a theoretical model that helps to understand change in mature organizational fields by emphasizing the role of competing institutional logics as part of a radical change process. Our investigation into a large-scale, government-led health reform initiative in Alberta, Canada, is based upon a qualitative case study approach to understanding the process of field recomposition. This study focuses on the later portions of cha…
Theorizing Change
This study examines the role of professional associations in a changing, highly institutionalized organizational field and suggests that they play a significant role in legitimating change. A model...
Understanding Radical Organizational Change
Royston Greenwood, C. R. Hinings, Understanding Radical Organizational Change: Bringing together the Old and the New Institutionalism, The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Oct., 1996), pp. 1022-1054
Values and Organizational Structure
Recent developments in organizational theory emphasize the need to examine the relationship between organizational values and structure. Values underpin organizational structure and give it meaning. Drawing on concepts of culture, institutional theory, and archetypes, this paper tests hypotheses on the value/structure relationship. The sample used for the study was a set of Canadian amateur sport organizations undergoing institutional change. Thi…
Understanding Strategic Change
We examined the concept of archetype, implicit in a number of contemporary approaches to the study of organizational design and change. Despite an emerging interest in archetypes, the concept has r...
Organizational Design Types, Tracks and the Dynamics of Strategic Change
Change and stability in organizations is to be understood through the twin concepts of design archetypes and tracks. Organizations operate with structural designs which are given meaning and coherence by underlying interpretive schemes. Particular interpre tive schemes coupled with associated structural arrangements constitute a design archetype. The temporal relationship between an organization and one or more archetypes defines an organization'…
A Rejoinder to Danziger's Comment
The Politics of the Budgetary Process in English Local Government
Contingency Theory and Public Bureaucracies
The study of organizational bureaucracies has in recent years taken the form of ‘contingency theory’ a theory which rests upon the assumption that organizational characteristics have to be shaped to meet situational circumstances. The theory implies that the extent to which an organization secures a ‘goodness of fit’ between situational circumstances and structural characteristics will determine the level of organizational performance. Child summ…
Contingency Theory and the Organization of Local Authorities
Contingency Theory and the Organization of local Authorities. Part I
The Culture-Free Context of Organization Structure
In data in standard form on seventy manufacturing organizations in three countries, consistent relationships are found between variables of organization context or 'task environment' (size, dependence, technology) and measures of structure (Formalization, Specialization, Autonomy). These support the hypothesis that relationships will be stable across societies. Even though culturally shaped variations may occur in some features of organizations, …
The Comparative Study of Local Government Organisation
Unless the intentions of the Conservative government are thwarted, existing local authorities in England and Wales, other than those in London, will be replaced in April 1974. The election of local councils will have taken place twelve months earlier. One would expect such a major change to lead to changes in organisational practices and the development of new organisational forms. For example, the transfer of functions from existing urban author…
Dimensions of Organization Structure and their Context
This study presents a replication of the work of Pugh et al. on aspects of organization structure. On a sample of nine manufacturing organizations it is found that the structural dimensions of specialization, formalization and standardization form one related group, and centralization and lack of autonomy form another. The first group of 'structuring' variables are related to the size of the organization. The second group of 'authority' variables…
Role Relations and Value Adaptation
The idea of a general professional/bureaucrat conflict has a very narrow empirical base. It is suggested that such conflict may be 'value specific' or 'role specific'. To test this, a sample of members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants was drawn as a criterion professional group, because of the equal distribution of its members between private practice and industry. The profession's values were operationalized in specific terms as being c…
Personality and Productivity in Management
The Culture-Free Context of Organization Structure
In data in standard form on seventy manufacturing organizations in three countries, consistent relationships are found between variables of organization context or 'task environment' (size, dependence, technology) and measures of structure (Formalization, Specialization, Autonomy). These support the hypothesis that relationships will be stable across societies. Even though culturally shaped variations may occur in some features of organizations, …
Values and Organizational Structure
Recent developments in organizational theory emphasize the need to examine the relationship between organizational values and structure. Values underpin organizational structure and give it meaning. Drawing on concepts of culture, institutional theory, and archetypes, this paper tests hypotheses on the value/structure relationship. The sample used for the study was a set of Canadian amateur sport organizations undergoing institutional change. Thi…
Contingency Theory and the Organization of local Authorities. Part I
Contingency Theory and Public Bureaucracies
The study of organizational bureaucracies has in recent years taken the form of ‘contingency theory’ a theory which rests upon the assumption that organizational characteristics have to be shaped to meet situational circumstances. The theory implies that the extent to which an organization secures a ‘goodness of fit’ between situational circumstances and structural characteristics will determine the level of organizational performance. Child summ…
The Politics of the Budgetary Process in English Local Government
Dimensions of Organization Structure and their Context
This study presents a replication of the work of Pugh et al. on aspects of organization structure. On a sample of nine manufacturing organizations it is found that the structural dimensions of specialization, formalization and standardization form one related group, and centralization and lack of autonomy form another. The first group of 'structuring' variables are related to the size of the organization. The second group of 'authority' variables…
An Approach to the Study of Bureaucracy
Sociology needs precise, comparative, reliable data. This requires the splitting down of unitary 'grand' concepts into operationally defined variables, fashioned to attack particular problems, and amenable to multivariate statistical analysis. This approach can be exemplified in the study of bureaucracy by the development of scaleable dimensions of organization structure such as specialization. This concept has been operationally defined, and a c…
Role Relations and Value Adaptation
The idea of a general professional/bureaucrat conflict has a very narrow empirical base. It is suggested that such conflict may be 'value specific' or 'role specific'. To test this, a sample of members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants was drawn as a criterion professional group, because of the equal distribution of its members between private practice and industry. The profession's values were operationalized in specific terms as being c…
Contingency Theory and the Organization of Local Authorities
Personality and Productivity in Management
Personality and Productivity in Management
An Approach to the Study of Bureaucracy
Sociology needs precise, comparative, reliable data. This requires the splitting down of unitary 'grand' concepts into operationally defined variables, fashioned to attack particular problems, and amenable to multivariate statistical analysis. This approach can be exemplified in the study of bureaucracy by the development of scaleable dimensions of organization structure such as specialization. This concept has been operationally defined, and a c…
Role Relations and Value Adaptation
The idea of a general professional/bureaucrat conflict has a very narrow empirical base. It is suggested that such conflict may be 'value specific' or 'role specific'. To test this, a sample of members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants was drawn as a criterion professional group, because of the equal distribution of its members between private practice and industry. The profession's values were operationalized in specific terms as being c…
Dimensions of Organization Structure and their Context
This study presents a replication of the work of Pugh et al. on aspects of organization structure. On a sample of nine manufacturing organizations it is found that the structural dimensions of specialization, formalization and standardization form one related group, and centralization and lack of autonomy form another. The first group of 'structuring' variables are related to the size of the organization. The second group of 'authority' variables…
The Comparative Study of Local Government Organisation
Unless the intentions of the Conservative government are thwarted, existing local authorities in England and Wales, other than those in London, will be replaced in April 1974. The election of local councils will have taken place twelve months earlier. One would expect such a major change to lead to changes in organisational practices and the development of new organisational forms. For example, the transfer of functions from existing urban author…
The Culture-Free Context of Organization Structure
In data in standard form on seventy manufacturing organizations in three countries, consistent relationships are found between variables of organization context or 'task environment' (size, dependence, technology) and measures of structure (Formalization, Specialization, Autonomy). These support the hypothesis that relationships will be stable across societies. Even though culturally shaped variations may occur in some features of organizations, …
Contingency Theory and the Organization of Local Authorities
Contingency Theory and the Organization of local Authorities. Part I
Contingency Theory and Public Bureaucracies
The study of organizational bureaucracies has in recent years taken the form of ‘contingency theory’ a theory which rests upon the assumption that organizational characteristics have to be shaped to meet situational circumstances. The theory implies that the extent to which an organization secures a ‘goodness of fit’ between situational circumstances and structural characteristics will determine the level of organizational performance. Child summ…
The Politics of the Budgetary Process in English Local Government
A Rejoinder to Danziger's Comment
Organizational Design Types, Tracks and the Dynamics of Strategic Change
Change and stability in organizations is to be understood through the twin concepts of design archetypes and tracks. Organizations operate with structural designs which are given meaning and coherence by underlying interpretive schemes. Particular interpre tive schemes coupled with associated structural arrangements constitute a design archetype. The temporal relationship between an organization and one or more archetypes defines an organization'…
Understanding Strategic Change
We examined the concept of archetype, implicit in a number of contemporary approaches to the study of organizational design and change. Despite an emerging interest in archetypes, the concept has r...
Understanding Radical Organizational Change
Royston Greenwood, C. R. Hinings, Understanding Radical Organizational Change: Bringing together the Old and the New Institutionalism, The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Oct., 1996), pp. 1022-1054
Values and Organizational Structure
Recent developments in organizational theory emphasize the need to examine the relationship between organizational values and structure. Values underpin organizational structure and give it meaning. Drawing on concepts of culture, institutional theory, and archetypes, this paper tests hypotheses on the value/structure relationship. The sample used for the study was a set of Canadian amateur sport organizations undergoing institutional change. Thi…
Theorizing Change
This study examines the role of professional associations in a changing, highly institutionalized organizational field and suggests that they play a significant role in legitimating change. A model...
The Recomposition of an Organizational Field
In this paper we develop a theoretical model that helps to understand change in mature organizational fields by emphasizing the role of competing institutional logics as part of a radical change process. Our investigation into a large-scale, government-led health reform initiative in Alberta, Canada, is based upon a qualitative case study approach to understanding the process of field recomposition. This study focuses on the later portions of cha…
Interlevel Influences on the Reconstruction of Professional Role Identity
Research on roles and identities generally represents a micro perspective that does not account for the reconstruction of professional role identity, owing to insufficient attention to institutional forces. We trace institutional influences on professional role identity reconstruction and extend theory by building bridges across institutional, organizational, and individual levels of analysis. Findings indicate that agentic reconstruction of prof…
Managing the Rivalry of Competing Institutional Logics
We investigated an organizational field where competing institutional logics existed for a lengthy period of time. We identified four mechanisms for managing the rivalry of competing logics that facilitated and strengthened the separate identities of key actors, thus providing a way for competing logics to co-exist and separately guide the behaviour of different actors. We contribute to the institutional literature by showing that competing logic…
Restructuring the Professional Organization
In recent years the professions have undergone radical transformation. With the advent of rapidly changing markets, more sophisticated and demanding clients, deregulation and increased competition, the generalist professional partnerships have given way to larger, more corporate forms of organization, comprising increasingly autonomous specialist business units.This volume critically examines these changes through an examination of the archetypes…
Organizational form, structure, and religious organizations
Organizational form, structure, and religious organizations
Professions in Organizations
Fields, Institutional Infrastructure and Governance
Field or Fields? Building the Scaffolding for Cumulation of Research on Institutional Fields
The concept of an institutional field is one of the cornerstones of institutional theory, and yet the concept has been stretched both theoretically and empirically, making consolidation of findings across multiple studies more difficult. In this article, we review the literature and analyze empirical studies of institutional fields to build scaffolding for the cumulation of research on institutional fields. Our review revealed two types of fields…
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Economics (13 works) · Public relations (13 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (11 works) · Management (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (7 works)