Les écoles de management face aux accréditations : contrôle et dépendance

Based on empirical cases dealing with the diffusion of accreditation processes in French and English Business Schools, this article discusses the institutional isomorphism thesis. By reducing accreditations to quality signals primarily addressed to potential students, neo-institutionalist authors en...

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Main Author:	Benoit Cret
Format:	Article
Language:	fra
Published:	Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2013-06-01
Series:	Sociologies
Subjects:	accreditation label Business School neo-institutionalism homogenizing standardization
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/4364

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title	Les écoles de management face aux accréditations : contrôle et dépendance
title_short	Les écoles de management face aux accréditations : contrôle et dépendance
title_full	Les écoles de management face aux accréditations : contrôle et dépendance
title_fullStr	Les écoles de management face aux accréditations : contrôle et dépendance
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publisher	Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française
series	Sociologies
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description	Based on empirical cases dealing with the diffusion of accreditation processes in French and English Business Schools, this article discusses the institutional isomorphism thesis. By reducing accreditations to quality signals primarily addressed to potential students, neo-institutionalist authors enhance convergent mimetic strategies that translate into homogenizing processes within the organizational field. This article highlights the local Business Schools’ strategies to reduce uncertainty towards the accreditation agencies. Conflicts, negotiations and disparities are thus introduced for each stage of the neo-institutionalist thesis.
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Les écoles de management face aux accréditations : contrôle et dépendance

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