ISOMORPHISM AND EXTERNAL SUPPORT IN CONFLICTING INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS: A STUDY OF DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT UNITS.
研究社区心理健康中心在涉足药物滥用治疗时，面对传统心理健康与药物滥用治疗两个领域的冲突要求，如何采取看似矛盾的做法，并发现与传统领域的同构性有助于获得外部支持。
Using institutional theory, we developed predictions about organizational units that moved from an environment making consistent demands to one making conflicting demands. Many community mental health centers have diversified into drug abuse treatment. The units providing those services face conflicting demands from the traditional mental health sector and the new drug abuse treatment sector about which clients to serve, how to assess their problems, and who should provide treatment. We propose that in response to such demands these units will adopt apparently conflicting practices. Also, isomorphism with the traditional sector will be positively associated with external support from parent mental health centers and other actors in the mental health sector. Results generally support those predictions.