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Institutional Guardianship: the Role of... - Document (802 K) |
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| Author |
DeJordy, Rich |
| Title |
Institutional Guardianship: the Role of Agency in Preserving Threatened Institutional Arrangements |
| Date created |
2010 |
| Abstract |
Institutional Theory has responded to early criticism that actors are characterized as passive "cultural dopes" primarily through work on Institutional Entrepreneurship, which implicitly links actors' agency to institutional change or creation. In this dissertation, I decouple change from agency, examining how actors work to maintain existing institutional arrangements that have come under threat. Through inductive, qualitative analysis of the creation of the Securities Exchange Commission in 1934, focusing primarily on the legislative history, I ground my analysis in the speech events of the actors involved in stabilizing the securities markets as an institution after the Crash begun in 1929, identifying different forms of Institutional Guardianship aimed at preserving different aspects of the institution. I then generalize across actors to present an abstracted model of Institutional Guardianship. |
| Use Restrictions |
I hereby allow Boston College to include and preserve my dissertation/thesis in electronic form in the Boston College Institutional Repository, which shall include the right to publicly post my dissertation/thesis on the World Wide Web. I will retain copyright ownership, but I grant to Boston College the non-exclusive right to copy, distribute, and publicly display my dissertation/thesis in any form as may be necessary or convenient in the future as file formats, storage media, and distribution mechanisms evolve. |
| Subject |
Change |
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Cultural Resources |
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Depression |
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Institutional Theory |
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Persistence |
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Stock Market |
| Genre Heading |
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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text |
| Publisher |
Boston College |
| Link to Item |
2345/1394 |
| Thesis Advisor |
Glynn, Mary Ann |
| Degree Name |
PhD |
| Degree Grantor |
Boston College. Carroll School of Management. |
| Sys. No. |
000003668 |
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