The new institutionalism in the organizational sociology came into being in the late 1970's. This perspective tries to explain the resemblance in the formal structures of different organizations using the concept of shared values. Its explanatory logic lies in the "legitimacy mechanism," which refers to the power of socially shared values in casting the thinking mode or normalizing the behavior of human beings, thus able to induce or enforce organizations to adopt the organizational structures and regulations that are in accordance with the socially shared values.
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