There’s No Beer without a Smoke: Community Cohesion and Neighboring Communities’ Effects on Organizational Resistance to Antismoking Regulations in the Dutch Hospitality Industry

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Academy of Management Journal, 59, 2, (2016), pp. 545-578ISSN
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4 februari 2015
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Business Economics
Journal title
Academy of Management Journal
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vol. 59
Issue
iss. 2
Page start
p. 545
Page end
p. 578
Subject
Institute for Management ResearchAbstract
This study highlights the importance of communities in explaining organizational resistance
to institutional pressures. Examining the active resistance of small bars to
smoking regulations in 427 Dutch municipalities (communities), we argue that the
likelihood of organizational resistance to institutional pressure from a powerful actor is
affected by the social cohesion of the focal community. In addition, we propose a contiguity
effect that emphasizes the broader social context of the community—its neighboring
communities—as a source for support or information about appropriate ways to
resist such pressures. By incorporating community attributes to account for organizations’
heterogeneous responses to institutional pressure, the study advances current
institutional scholarship and demonstrates empirically how such a theory can help
explain the success of relatively weak organizational actors’ resistance in the face of
strong institutional pressures by the state—that is, as a result of their embeddedness in
a community.
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