Dissertation AbstractGraduate Institute of Business AdministrationNational Tai
wan UniversityName : Huei-Fang Chen(Ms.) Date : June, 1998Advi
sors : Professor S. C. Hsu Professor K. L. HuangThe Relationships Amon
g Organizational Legitimacy、Organizational Learning、and Organizational Isom
orphism--An Integrated Perspective From Institutional Theory The latest de
velopment of organizational theory had a tendency toward converging to institu
tional theory. Through literature review、in-depth interview、and practical ex
perience, this research built a theoretical model to explain the relationships
among major subjects in institutional theory and organizational learning. The
research framework hypothesize that under different construct of institutiona
l environmental pressures, an organizational will have different organizationa
l legitimacy orientation, and the organizational legitimacy will drive the org
anization to adapt a variety of organizational learning types to engage in iso
morphic change. Under this model, the major constructs of institutional enviro
nment included political、competitive、regulative、and normative. The two kind
s of orientation of organizational legitimacy are performance legitimacy and a
uthoritative legitimacy. In this study, we find three kinds of organizational
learning being most popular in banking sector, that is adaptive、respondent、a
nd grafting organizational learning. The organizational isomorphism are most f
ound in practice and structure. The samples of this study are 710 branches
of commercial banking in Taiwan. Many quantitative methods, including t-test、
MANOVA、cluster analysis、(2-analysis、correlation analysis、 and LISREL analy
sis, are used to test the hypotheses of this research. The major findings o
f this study are summarized as following: 1、To identify the constructs of
major variables of institutional theory and organizational learning. 2、To
verify the relationships among the pressures of institutional environment、org
anizational legitimacy、organizational learning and organizational isomorphism
. The relationships had not been mentioned in the previous literature. 3、T
o testify that different kinds of organizational will trigger different types
of organizational isomorphism and that different oriented organizational legit
imacy will drive a variety of organizational learning. To find that the organi
zational learning plays a significant role between organizational legitimacy a
nd organizational isomorphism. To verify that competitive institutional pressu
re had the most significant correlation with performance-oriented organization
al legitimacy, and political and regulative pressures have more significant re
lationship with authority-oriented organizational legitimacy. The major con
tribution of this research is to combine institutional theory and organization
al learning to explain an organizational phenomena in Taiwan''s commercial bank
ing industry with quantitative methodology, using newly developed inventories
of institutional theory and organizational learning variables. The research ha
d brought some implications to management practice in banking industry.