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Source and Patterns of Organizational Defiance of Formal Institutions: Insights from Nollywood, the Nigerian Movie Industry

  • We extend research on informal economic activity and investigate why organizations adopt informal rules when formal ones exist and how and why patterns of defiance vary across organizations. We build on data from an in-depth study of four organizations operating in the Nigerian movie industry. We identify ambiguity of formal institutions as a major source of organizational defiance. We also find that the organization's domain of embeddedness mediates the relationship between institutional ambiguity and organizational defiance. According to our analysis, the rationale for organizing propelled by the dominant domain of embeddedness affects whether organizations consistently or selectively defy ambiguous formal rules. Our findings highlight the importance of the interplay between institutional and organizational dynamics in understanding informality within an economy.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Uchenna Uzo, Johanna MairORCiD
Parent Title (English):Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Publication year:2014
First Page:56
Last Page:74
Release Date:2016/01/22
Tag:informal economy; informal institutions; institutional ambiguity; institutional complexity; organizational defiance
Volume:8
Issue:1
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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