William Richard Scott

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Sociology

#72

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#111

Historical Rank

#40

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William Richard Scott's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, William Richard Scott is an American sociologist, and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University, specialised in institutional theory and organisation science. He is known for his research on the relation between organizations and their institutional environments.

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Published Works

Institutions and Organizations. (1995) (5370)
The Adolescence of Institutional Theory. (1987) (3377)
Institutions and Organizations: Ideas and Interests (2007) (2741)
Tracking the Giant Corporation@@@Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. (1991) (2028)
Institutions and organizations : ideas, interests and identities (2014) (1726)
Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality (1984) (1694)
INSTITUTIONAL THEORY AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL RESEARCH FORUM (2002) (1679)
Financial Accounting Theory (1983) (1413)
Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives (2006) (1349)
A Multidimensional Model of Organizational Legitimacy: Hospital Survival in Changing Institutional Environments (1998) (1150)
Approaching adulthood: the maturing of institutional theory (2008) (1045)
'Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony', American Journal of Sociology, 83, pp. 340-63. (2016) (885)
Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach (1962) (859)
Institutional Environments and Organizations: Structural Complexity and Individualism (1994) (842)
Lords of the Dance: Professionals as Institutional Agents (2008) (703)
Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care (2000) (572)
Organizations and Movements (2002) (476)
The Organizational Life Cycle (1981) (429)
Reflections on a Half-Century of Organizational Sociology (2004) (417)
The Legalization of the Workplace (1994) (392)
Institutional carriers: reviewing modes of transporting ideas over time and space and considering their consequences (2003) (350)
Does Practice Make Perfect?: Part I: The Relation Between Hospital Volume and Outcomes for Selected Diagnostic Categories (1984) (338)
Institutional exceptions on global projects: a process model (2008) (314)
Annual Review of Sociology (1975) (282)
Reactions to Supervision in a Heteronomous Professional Organization (1965) (260)
The institutional construction of organizations : international and longitudinal studies (1995) (209)
Does Practice Make Perfect?: Part II: The Relation Between Volume and and Outcomes and Other Hospital Characteristics (1984) (181)
Reflections: The Past and Future of Research on Institutions and Institutional Change (2010) (159)
Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach. (1962) (155)
The construct of institutional distance through the lens of different institutional perspectives: Review, analysis, and recommendations (2019) (147)
The Expansion of Due Process in Organizations (1988) (140)
The Changing World of Chinese Enterprise: An Institutional Perspective (2002) (135)
Hospital structure and performance (1987) (123)
Toward a unified theory of project governance: economic, sociological and psychological supports for relational contracting (2012) (120)
“Site Fights”: Explaining Opposition to Pipeline Projects in the Developing World1 (2010) (115)
Who Needs to Know What? Institutional Knowledge and Global Projects (2010) (110)
Global Projects: Institutional and Political Challenges (2011) (107)
W. Richard SCOTT (1995), Institutions and Organizations. Ideas, Interests and Identities. : Paperback: 360 pages Publisher: Sage (1995) Language: English ISBN: 978-142242224 (2014) (90)
Environmental Linkages and Organizational Complexity: Public and Private Schools. (1984) (80)
The Institutionalization of Rational Organization@@@Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality. (1985) (78)
Innovation in Medical Care Organizations: A Synthetic Review (1990) (77)
(Re)defining public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the new public governance (NPG) paradigm: an institutional maturity perspective (2020) (77)
Managing professional work: three models of control for health organizations. (1982) (70)
The Quality Movement Organization Theory (1999) (70)
The Organization of Medical Care Services: Toward an Integrated Theoretical Model (1993) (69)
Social Movements and Organization Theory: Movements Penetrating Organizations (2005) (64)
The institutional environment of global project organizations (2012) (64)
Developments in Organization Theory, 1960-1980 (1981) (62)
The Public–Private Partnership Enabling Field (2012) (59)
Organizational Performance: Managing for Efficiency and Effectiveness (1997) (58)
Effectiveness in professional organizations: the impact of surgeons and surgical staff organizations on the quality of care in hospitals. (1982) (58)
A Bayesian Approach to Asset Valuation and Audit Size (1973) (40)
Auditors' legal liability, collusion with management, and investors' loss* (1989) (40)
The Corporate Practice of Medicine: Competition and Innovation in Health Care (review) (2001) (38)
Advocacy Organizations and the Field of Youth Services: Ongoing Efforts to Restructure a Field (2006) (35)
Systems Within Systems (1985) (34)
Norms, culture, and world politics: insights from sociology's institutionalism Martha Finnemore (1996) (33)
The Organization of Mental Health Services: Societal and Community Systems (1986) (33)
Organizational determinants of services, quality and cost of care in hospitals. (1979) (32)
An organizational field approach to resource environments in healthcare: comparing entries of hospitals and home health agencies in the San Francisco Bay region. (1998) (31)
The Changing Ecology of U.S. Higher Education: An Organization Field Perspective (2016) (30)
'Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935', Administrative Science Quarterly, 28, pp. 22-39. (2016) (29)
The Relationship Between Intensity and Duration of Medical Services and Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients (1979) (29)
The impact of regulation on the administrative structure of hospitals: toward an analytic framework. (1984) (29)
Early Stages in the Institutionalization of Integrated Project Delivery (2019) (27)
Between Movement and Establishment: Organizations Advocating for Youth (2009) (27)
Governance Challenges of Infrastructure Delivery: The Case for Socio-Economic Governance Approaches (2010) (25)
Cultural Clashes in International Infrastructure Development Projects: Which Cultures Matter? (2005) (24)
Professional power and professional effectiveness: the power of the surgical staff and the quality of surgical care in hospitals. (1978) (24)
Trends in Occupations and Organizations in the Medical Care and Mental Health Sectors (1985) (24)
Social processes and social structures;: An introduction to sociology (1970) (24)
The Mandate Is Still Being Honored: In Defense of Weber's Disciples (1996) (23)
Review Article : Costs and Quality of Hospital Care: a Review of the Literature (1984) (22)
Institutional Challenges and Solutions for Global Megaprojects (2017) (22)
Global projects: Strategic perspectives (2010) (22)
Global projects: Distinguishing features, drivers, and challenges (2011) (21)
Auditor's Loss Functions Implicit in Consumption-Investment Model (1975) (20)
A model of standard setting in auditing (1986) (20)
Evolving Professions: An Institutional Field Approach (2005) (20)
'The Population Ecology of Organizations', American Journal of Sociology, 82, pp. 929-64. (2016) (19)
Some implications of organization theory for research on health services. (1966) (19)
Examining the State of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Institutionalization in the United States (2018) (17)
ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND HIGHER EDUCATION (2015) (16)
Recent Developments in Organizational Sociology (1993) (16)
Global Projects: The institutional environment of global projects (2011) (15)
Embedding the examination of multilevel factors in an organization field context. (2012) (15)
Measuring the Complexity and Uncertainty of Surgery and Postsurgical Care (1980) (14)
Entrepreneurs and professionals: The mediating role of institutions (2010) (14)
Public–Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development (2019) (14)
The Organization Of Institutional Sectors (1982) (14)
Commentary: An International Comparison and Evaluation of Financial Accounting Concepts Statements* (2002) (13)
Ad Astra per Aspera: A Journey from the Periphery (2006) (12)
Global Projects: Rules versus results: sources and resolution of institutional conflicts on Indian metro railway projects (2011) (11)
Costs and quality of hospital care: a review of the literature. (1984) (10)
Prefatory Chapter: Institutions and Social Innovation (2007) (10)
Institutional Change and the Organization of Health Care (2010) (9)
Global Projects: “Site fights”: explaining opposition to pipeline projects in the developing world (2011) (9)
Conflicting levels of rationality: regulators, managers, and professionals in the medical care sector. (1985) (9)
Public leadership : a critical review with special reference to adult education (1961) (8)
Social Movements and Organization Theory: Preface (2005) (8)
The Hospital in Modern Society.Eliot Freidson (1964) (8)
Decision Making in Schools (8)
Scoring Rules For Probabilistic Reporting (1979) (8)
Mental Health and Drug Abuse Services (1986) (8)
Social Movements and Organization Theory: Social Movement Organizations: Form and Structure (2005) (8)
Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship: Promise and Pitfalls (2013) (8)
A simplified guide to BHS: Critical apparatus, masora, accents, unusual letters & other markings (1987) (7)
A Call for Two-Way Traffic: Improving the Connection Between Social Movement and Organizational/Institutional Theory (1999) (7)
Intercultural Knowledge Flows in Edge Organizations: Trust as an Enabler (2005) (7)
Organizing on the Edge: Appreciation and Critique (2006) (7)
Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay.Charles Perrow (1973) (7)
Executive Stock Options and Concavity of the Option Price (2006) (6)
Organizations, populations, and fields: Investigating organizational heterogeneity through a multilevel case study design (2009) (6)
Case Study: A Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Framework for Characterising Transportation Systems Over the Full Life Cycle (2016) (6)
Discussion of “Two Models of Auditor‐Client Interaction: Tests with United Kingdom Data” (1997) (6)
Developing a Modelling Framework for Aligning the Human Aspects to the Physical System in Large Complex Systems (2019) (5)
Group Preference Orderings for Audit and Valuation Alternatives: The Single-Peakedness Condition (1977) (5)
TOWARD AN INTEGRATED LIFECYCLE GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK FOR DELIVERING CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS THROUGH PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS (P3S) (2014) (5)
Introduction: Organization Theory and Mental Health Systems (1985) (5)
Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development: Finance, Stakeholder Alignment, Governance (2019) (5)
The stories of Genesis (1998) (5)
Content and Delivery of Canadian Academic Accounting Courses (1994) (4)
Economic effects of a mandated audit in a contingent-claims production economy* (1988) (4)
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 1. (1984) (4)
The structuration and destructuration of organizations and organizational fields (2000) (4)
A Model-Based Study of Concept Development for Hospital Wayfinding to Improve Operating Efficiency (2014) (3)
Response to Hirsch's Review Essay (1998) (3)
Global Projects: Institutional exceptions on global projects: a process model (2011) (3)
CURRENT COST DEPRECIATION: A PROGRAMMING PERSPECTIVE (1982) (3)
Managing the Complexities of Infrastructure Procurement Projects - A Model Based Systems Engineering Approach (2018) (3)
Application of Design Science Research to Design a Modelling Approach for Procurement of Infrastructure Systems (2019) (3)
(Re)assessing public–private partnership governance challenges: an institutional maturity perspective (2019) (3)
The Structuring of Organizations and of Issues@@@The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains. (1989) (3)
Global Projects: Introduction: studying global projects (2011) (3)
A stakeholder-driven approach to developing MBSE products for heavy rail (2018) (3)
Scientific Circulation Management for Newspapers (2010) (2)
The Sociology of Organizations@@@A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations@@@Complex Organizations@@@Modern Organizations@@@Formal Organizations@@@Status and Kinship in the Higher Civil Service@@@The Bureaucratic Phenomenon (1964) (2)
SOME PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE (1977) (2)
Higher Education: A Field in Ferment (2015) (2)
Comparing organizations: Empirical and theoretical issues (2009) (2)
Turtles All the Way Down – And Up: Macro-Institutions (2020) (2)
Imitation and adaptation: lessons from a case study of a metro rail project in India (2020) (2)
The hospital : an organizational analysis (1976) (2)
Case Study: Customised Enhancement of an MBSE Environment for Transport Infrastructure Projects (2016) (1)
Introduction: PPPs – theoretical challenges and directions forward (2019) (1)
Institutional effects on organizational governance and conformity: the case of the Kaiser Permanente and the United States health care field (1999) (1)
An Identity of Passions (1998) (1)
: Shared Government in Employment Security: A Study of Advisory Councils (1960) (1)
Utilising MBSE to help manage the impact of new technology on track worker safety (2018) (1)
An Architecture Framework Approach for Complex Transport Projects (2020) (1)
Theories of Organizations: Form, Process, and Transformation.@@@Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems. (1982) (1)
Organizations: Structure and Behavior.Joseph A. Litterer (1964) (1)
Sharing ideas. (2000) (1)
Populations of Organizations (2009) (1)
Case Study: Custom Enhancement of MBSE Tools for Better Guidance on the Transport Network Architecture (2015) (1)
Chapter 31 Collegial capital: The organizations research community at Stanford, 1970–2000 (2010) (1)
The hospital as a community facility. The medical staff and the hospital: an organizational perspective. (1972) (1)
Medical Care, Readings in the Sociology of Medical Institutions. (1967) (1)
Medical Care Readings--in the Sociology of Medical Institutions (1967) (1)
Social Movements and Organization Theory: References (2005) (1)
Work Organizations: Major Theoretical Perspectives.Curt Tausky (1971) (0)
Social Movements and Organization Theory: Political and Mobilization Context (2005) (0)
8. Community- and National-Level Processes (2020) (0)
Youth Advocacy on the Ground (2009) (0)
Managing Organisational System Evolution Through Model-Based Systems Engineering Approaches (2020) (0)
Community Organizations: Three Cases (2009) (0)
Organizational Structure and Hospital Work: Remarkable Evidence of Sociological Factors@@@Hospital Structure and Performance. (1989) (0)
Engaging Transnational to Subnational: Advancing Multilevel Thinking in Socioeconomic Development (2016) (0)
Interpersonal Competence and Organizational Effectiveness.Chris Argyris (1962) (0)
Modeling the Evolution of Organizational Systems for the Digital Transformation of Heavy Rail (2020) (0)
Open Sesame: An Investigation of the Effects of a Group Support System on a Men's Counseling Group. (1996) (0)
Institutional Challenges and Solutions for Global Megaprojects 1 (2015) (0)
Institutional Theory (2005) (0)
Case study: Application of evolving architecture frameworks for heavy rail asset management and safety assurance (2016) (0)
Diverse Ways of Making a Difference (2009) (0)
Discussion of Materiality Allocation in Audit Planning: A Feasibility Study (1979) (0)
Towards the integration of organisational culture models into model-based systems engineering approaches for enterprise systems transformation (2020) (0)
Book Review:Bureaucracy and Innovation. Victor A. Thompson (1970) (0)
Modern Organization.Victor A. Thompson (1962) (0)
Organizing for a New Century (2004) (0)
Reflecting team supervision (RTS): reflexivity in therapy, supervision and research (1993) (0)
Book Review:The Structure and Dynamics of Organizations and Groups. Eric Berne (1964) (0)
Organizations Advocating for Youth (2009) (0)
Design for Whom? Power for What?@@@Control and Ideology in Organizations.@@@Decentralization: Sketches Toward a Rational Theory.@@@Organization Theory: An Integrated Approach.@@@Organizations: Structure and Behavior.@@@Organizations: Theory and Analysis. (1983) (0)
Microinstitutionalism: Mapping a Research Agenda (2018) (0)
Conditions for Youth in San Francisco and Oakland (2009) (0)
Book Review: Industrial Relations Theory: The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations (2010) (0)
Introduction (1985) (0)
Bureaucracy.Guy Benveniste (1979) (0)
Improving engineering governance for large infrastructure projects (2015) (0)
Information Processing and Financial Market Price Adjustments (2019) (0)
Developing MBSE techniques for incorporating workload and situation awareness assessments in heavy rail technology transformation (2020) (0)
Structure, Targets, and Tactics (2009) (0)
Correction to: An Architecture Framework Approach for Complex Transport Projects (2020) (0)
Medical care : readings in the sociology of medical institutions (1967) (0)
Medical Care: Readings in the Sociology of Medical Institutions. (1967) (0)
An Essay On The Natural Equality Of Men: On The Rights That Result From It, And On The Duties Which It Imposes (2008) (0)
Health Professions and Organization (2014) (0)
Index to Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (2006) (0)
Operations of Sociological Inquiry.Mario Lins (1957) (0)
Fields of Gold: Mining the Origins, Definitions, and Assumptions Attending Institutional Fields (2012) (0)
Topics: Concepts and Organizations (2006) (0)
Exploring the modelling of organisational culture within holistic enterprise systems transformation (2020) (0)
Understanding Advocacy in Context (2009) (0)
Social Movements and Organization Theory: Creating a Common Framework (2005) (0)
Chapter 9 Administration is necessary – but research rules (2010) (0)
Discussion of “Accounting-based divisional performance measurement: Incentives for profit maximization” (1990) (0)
Complex Organizations: A Sociological Reader.Amitai Etzioni (1961) (0)
Meta-Sociology: Doings and Reflections (1991) (0)
Trust as an Enabler ( Student Paper # 208 ) Track : Edge Organizations (2005) (0)
How Public Private Partnerships Impact Managerial capacity for Infrastructure Management in Developing Countries (2010) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1962) (0)
"Are Organizations Still Relevant to Organizational Studies, Theoretically, Empirically, Pragmatically?" (2016) (0)
Anteiorganixati ' on 4 Rerationships (2007) (0)
[Discussion of Auditor's Loss Functions Implicit in Consumption-Investment Models]: A Reply (1975) (0)
spective, and focusing on the impact of institutional features on social structures and processes, W. Richard Scott and his colleagues looked at the changes occurring over half a century in the health care delivery sys- (2001) (0)
HOW DO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS PENTETRATE ORGANIZATIONS? ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSE (2002) (0)

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