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.
Funding Information:
We are grateful to Matthew Bothner, Francois Collet, Gokhan Ertug, Yonghoon Lee, and Matteo Prato for valuable comments on earlier drafts of the article and to seminar participants at ESMT, Hitotsubashi University, Stanford University, Waseda University, and the COORS Tokyo group for useful feedback. Jesper Edman acknowledges funding from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, grant number 25780232.
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PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
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
VL - 42
SP - 1557
EP - 1580
JO - Organization Studies
JF - Organization Studies
SN - 0170-8406
IS - 10
ER -