Population Ecology or Institutional Theory? Why? Why not?

Population ecology takes organisations as a group and focuses on relationship between the environment with this group

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Other adaptation approaches consider relationship between its own environment with an organization. Population ecology takes organizations as a group and focuses on relationship between the environment with this group. So, unit of analysis is community prganizations, not organizations (Hannan ve Freeman, 1977). Thus, according to previous approach, a new approach of overriding sociological nature arises.

Institutional theories of organizations provide a rich, complex view of organizations. In these theories, organizations are influenced by normative pressures, sometimes arising from external sources such as the state, other times arising from within the organizations itself. Under some conditions, these pressures lead the organization to be guided by legitimated elements, from standard operating procedures to proffessional certification and state requirement, which often hava the effect of directiong attention away from task performance. Adoption of these legitimated elements, leading to isomorphism with the institutional environment, increases the probability of survival. Institutional theories of organization have spread…