Executive Migration and Institutional Change

We examine how the immigration of leaders possessing different skills, understandings, assumptions, and values can promote change within institutionalized organizations and fields. Our results indicate that American liberal arts colleges were more likely to adopt controversial professional programs...

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Published in:Academy of Management journal 2002-02, Vol.45 (1), p.120-143
Main Authors: Kraatz, Matthew S., Moore, James H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Appointments & personnel changes
Cognitive models
College presidents
Colleges
Colleges & universities
Curricula
Educational institutions
Elites
Executives
Higher education
Hiring
Human migration
Institutional change
Institutions
Leaders
Learning
Legitimacy
Liberal arts education
Modeling
Occupational mobility
Organizational change
Special Research Forum on Institutional Theory and Institutional Change
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U.S.A
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Summary:We examine how the immigration of leaders possessing different skills, understandings, assumptions, and values can promote change within institutionalized organizations and fields. Our results indicate that American liberal arts colleges were more likely to adopt controversial professional programs during the 1970s and 1980s when led by presidents who had recently migrated either from colleges that had professional programs or from lower-status colleges.
ISSN:0001-4273
1948-0989
DOI:10.5465/3069288