John W. Meyer

Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

John W. Meyer, Brian Rowan · American Journal of Sociology · 1977 · 27.3K citations

Management, Organization Studies, Organizational Behavior +14

World Society and the Nation‐State

John W. Meyer, John Boli, George Thomas et al. · American Journal of Sociology · 1997 · 4.7K citations

Social Sciences, International Relations, World Cultures +15

Institutional conditions for diffusion

David Strang, John W. Meyer · Theory and Society · 1993 · 2.1K citations

Management, Economics, Organization Studies +8

Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality.

David L. Clark, John W. Meyer, W. Richard Scott · Administrative Science Quarterly · 1985 · 1.7K citations

Management, Education Policy, Organization Studies +17

The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century

Evan Schofer, John W. Meyer · American Sociological Review · 2005 · 1.6K citations

Education, Education Policy, Higher Education +13