<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">S Diogo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Teresa Carvalho</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A. Amaral</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Institutionalism and Organisational Change</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Palgrave International Handbook of Higher Education Policy and Governance</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">European High Education Area</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">High Education Policy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Historical Institutionalism</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Institutional Actor</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Institutional Theory</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-137-45617-5_7</style></url></web-urls></urls><edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J. Huisman, H. de Boer, D. Dill, M. Souto-Otero </style></edition><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Palgrave Macmillan </style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">London</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">114-131</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Institutional theory usually refers to a broad group of perspectives that interpret the relationship between institutions and human behaviour, assuming that not only human actions (i.e. behaviour, perceptions, power, policy preferences, decision-making processes) shape institutions, but these are also influenced by them. More specifically, institutionalism focuses on the need of organizations to adapt to their institutional environment, such as norms, rules and understandings about what is an acceptable or normal behaviour and that cannot be changed easily and/or instantaneously (March and Olsen, 1984; Meyer and Rowan, 1977). It argues that organizations take rules and norms for granted because they seem obvious or natural. Failure to act in accordance with norms and expectations may lead to conflict and illegitimacy. Changes occurring at the institutional field of higher education (HE) are said to increasingly constrain higher education institutions (HEIs). Given this, it is increasingly relevant to analyse the development of institutionalist theories and the way they have been adapted to the HE field.&lt;/p&gt;
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