We explore how transitory management fashions become institutionalized. Based on the concepts of institutional entrepreneurship and institutional work, we postulate that fashionable management practices acquire permanence when they are anchored within field-wide institutions. The building of such institutions requires various types of institutional work, including political work, technical work...

IT Fashions are new emerging IT innovations that are going through a hyped phase. Consequently they are on the rise and by their proponents claimed to be a fundamental improvement offering solutions to real or perceived problems with IT. Naturally, IT Fashions are characterized by both, high risk and high expected returns. Hitherto, suitable methodologies to quantify the impacts of IT Fashions ...

Lameness is an economically important problem in dairy cattle worldwide. Economic losses resulting from lameness arise not only from the cost to treat clinical cases but also from decreased milk production, decreased reproductive efficiency and premature culling. New York researchers estimate the total cost of lameness per 100 cows per year to be nearly $9000. The average incidence was 30 cases...