TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrenchment in status positions and the adoption of new norm-deviant organizational practices
T2 - Evidence from the Japanese banking industry, 1983–2005
AU - Edman, Jesper
AU - Makarevich, Alex
N1 - Funding Information:
Jesper Edman acknowledges funding from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, grant number 25780232.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We examine the effect of status entrenchment on the adoption of new norm-deviant organizational practices. Identifying organizational age and status mobility as factors affecting entrenchment, we extend the middle-status conformity theory by explicating how entrenchment moderates the relationship between status and adoption. Using original data from the Japanese loan syndication market, we show that young and new-in-status banks have a lower propensity to follow status-based adoption behavior than actors entrenched in the same status positions. We discuss implication of these results for the understanding of new practice adoption and organizational status effects.
AB - We examine the effect of status entrenchment on the adoption of new norm-deviant organizational practices. Identifying organizational age and status mobility as factors affecting entrenchment, we extend the middle-status conformity theory by explicating how entrenchment moderates the relationship between status and adoption. Using original data from the Japanese loan syndication market, we show that young and new-in-status banks have a lower propensity to follow status-based adoption behavior than actors entrenched in the same status positions. We discuss implication of these results for the understanding of new practice adoption and organizational status effects.
KW - Japanese banks
KW - legitimacy
KW - middle-status conformity
KW - norm-deviant behavior
KW - organizational status
KW - practice adoption
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U2 - 10.1177/0170840620910952
DO - 10.1177/0170840620910952
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85083661496
JO - Organization Studies
JF - Organization Studies
SN - 0170-8406
ER -