“… [I]nstitutional issues are important to the long-term performance of projects, that there is [a] benefit in recognizing them as a group, and that… [the institutional theory] …appl[ies] at this level in ways that are distinctive and useful.” (Morris & Geraldi, 2011, p. 24) Institutional theory contours organisations internal …show more content…
The long-term management and other isomorphic pillars still have a very influential power within institutional contexts of project-based organisations as the multiple components overlap in society and are not separate from each other. These types are harder to define particularly in the diversity of normative and cultural-cognitive elements, but have power in enacting change to regulatory pressures (Javernick-Will & Scott, 2010). Institutional theory and organisations are social structures that at the core are influenced by society, its people and require exploration. “[N]ot all firms are alike…” (Javernick-Will & Scott, 2010, p. 556). Giving way to the reasoning that even though project management within organisations is structured and has standards, the literature published by the leading non-for-profit institutional knowledge associations have them labelled as guides. Institutional influences beyond that of a normative constitution such as coercive/regulative, mimetic, cognitive/cultural-cognitive are all core elements describing the uses of institutional theory in project