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Catalytic events
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Catalytic events
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environmental events that transform institutions
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Chung
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Ken
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1962-
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Ken Chung
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Christmann
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Petra Christmann
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chair
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McCabe
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Donald L
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Donald L McCabe
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internal member
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Dougherty
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Deborah J
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Deborah J Dougherty
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Clarke
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Lee B
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Lee B Clarke
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outside member
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Andrews
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Clinton J
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Clinton J Andrews
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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theses
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2012
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2012-05
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2012
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eng
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Some environmentally disastrous events lead to significant institutional change while others do not. Consider that the volume of oil spilt at Guadalupe Dunes, California was twice that of the Exxon Valdez accident. Few have heard of the former while the latter has led to significant legislation to control oil pollution. Organizational institutionalists are ambivalent about why events lead to change or even whether they do. Some theorists argue that shocking events break the status quo but what constitutes shocking is unclear. Others argue that events do not by themselves cause change. Instead, individuals or groups who seek change look for events merely as a tool to publicize a problem and recruit support. The central goal of this dissertation therefore is to understand why and how events that arise from industrial accidents that harm the environment lead to significant institutional change. This study is focused on the claims that key actors make in establishing shared meanings that compel the new institution. By devising a comparative case study of four environmental accidents, I have developed a theory to explain why and how events lead to significant institutional change. I find that institutional change occurs when a few people perceive that an industrial accident has disrupted their lives and make claims to problematize the accident as causing an undesirable condition that must be alleviated. These people, labeled problem providers, then engage others, labeled solution providers, to create new meaning or symbolize the event. Such meanings further persuade others to create new institutions to effectively enforce a new order.
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Management
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Environmental disasters
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Events (Philosophy)
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Industrial accidents
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Industrial management--Environmental aspects
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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xiv, 298 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Ken Yin Chung
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10002600001.ETD.000065020
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T37943M6
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Chung
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Ken
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2012-05-01 13:26:55
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Ken Chung
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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