Precarious Values and Mundane Innovations: The Diffusion of Enrollment Management in U.S. Higher Education 1970-2005
Drawing primarily from Selznick's institutionalism, we make a general case for renewed attention to the "mundane administrative arrangements" that underlie the organizational capacity for value realization and a particular case for the study of value-subverting management innovations....
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| description | Drawing primarily from Selznick's institutionalism, we make a general case for renewed attention to the "mundane administrative arrangements" that underlie the organizational capacity for value realization and a particular case for the study of value-subverting management innovations. An empirical study of "enrollment management" in liberal arts colleges reveals this ostensibly innocuous innovation's value-undermining effects and identifies the organizational and environmental factors that have made these venerable organizations more or less susceptible to its adoption. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e87f822e-280c-4136-9213-950cffb986e22022-03-27T10:47:10ZPrecarious Values and Mundane Innovations: The Diffusion of Enrollment Management in U.S. Higher Education 1970-2005Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e87f822e-280c-4136-9213-950cffb986e2Saïd Business School - Eureka2010Ventresca, MKraatz, MDeng, LDrawing primarily from Selznick's institutionalism, we make a general case for renewed attention to the "mundane administrative arrangements" that underlie the organizational capacity for value realization and a particular case for the study of value-subverting management innovations. An empirical study of "enrollment management" in liberal arts colleges reveals this ostensibly innocuous innovation's value-undermining effects and identifies the organizational and environmental factors that have made these venerable organizations more or less susceptible to its adoption. |
| spellingShingle | Ventresca, M Kraatz, M Deng, L Precarious Values and Mundane Innovations: The Diffusion of Enrollment Management in U.S. Higher Education 1970-2005 |
| title | Precarious Values and Mundane Innovations: The Diffusion of Enrollment Management in U.S. Higher Education 1970-2005 |
| title_full | Precarious Values and Mundane Innovations: The Diffusion of Enrollment Management in U.S. Higher Education 1970-2005 |
| title_fullStr | Precarious Values and Mundane Innovations: The Diffusion of Enrollment Management in U.S. Higher Education 1970-2005 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Precarious Values and Mundane Innovations: The Diffusion of Enrollment Management in U.S. Higher Education 1970-2005 |
| title_short | Precarious Values and Mundane Innovations: The Diffusion of Enrollment Management in U.S. Higher Education 1970-2005 |
| title_sort | precarious values and mundane innovations the diffusion of enrollment management in u s higher education 1970 2005 |
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