Optimal distinctiveness: Broadening the interface between institutional theory and strategic management

By G. Fisher, Michael Lounsbury, Danny Miller. 2017

431 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7cde04e0cfa078901553e1f4e3dc034ca2b1d984

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In Accounting

1. Rory M. McDonald
2. Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
3. Matthew G. Grimes
4. Michael Lounsbury
5. Joel Gehman
6. Sarah Kaplan
7. Filipe M. Santos
8. S. Sarasvathy

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Matthew G. Grimes
2. Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
3. Sarah Kaplan
4. Joel Gehman
5. Rory M. McDonald
6. P. Devereaux Jennings
7. Matteo Borghi
8. Marcello M. Mariani

In Strategy and Management

1. Rory M. McDonald
2. Sarah Kaplan
3. Michael Lounsbury
4. Matthew G. Grimes
5. Joel Gehman
6. Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
7. Richard F.J. Haans
8. Timothy R. Hannigan

Citations in the corpus

• Industry 4.0: A Bibliometric Review of Its Managerial Intellectual Structure and Potential Evolution in the Service Industries (2019, background): “Therefore, an institutional theory perspective (DiMaggio and Powell, 1983; Meyer and Rowan, 1977; Zhao et al., 2017) might be able to better capture the role of governmental institutions in driving digital transformation in the tertiary sector.”
• Hidden Badge of Honor: How Contextual Distinctiveness Affects Category Promotion among Certified B Corporations (2017, methodology): “Here our research extends prior research on “optimal distinctiveness” (Deephouse, 1999; Zhao et al., 2016) to the domain of categories, showing how distinctiveness within a particular category contributes to differences in category members’ strategic actions.”
• Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and Effective Business-model Design (2019, background): “Recent work suggests that the locus of optimal distinctiveness may shift over time and across stakeholders (Wry, Lounsbury, and Jennings, 2014; Zhao et al., 2017).”
• Topic Modeling in Management Research: Rendering New Theory from Textual Data (2019, background): “and optimal distinctiveness (Deephouse, 1999; Zhao et al., 2017), and the evaluation of risk Page 26 of 105 Academy of Management Annals”
• An institutional logics approach to social entrepreneurship: Market logic, religious diversity, and resource acquisition by microfinance organizations (2016, background): “Resource acquisition is a critical component of any entrepreneurial process (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000; Zhao et al., 2016a, 2016b).”